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Chapter 15: Happiness
July 5th, 2023 | 53 mins 23 secs
david pizarro, happiness, intro psych, introduction to psychology, pain, paul bloom, pleasure, positive psychology, the good life
Our final chapter (at least for now)! In this episode, Paul and David discuss the science of happiness. We cover the difficulty of defining happiness (or the good life in general), the rise of 'positive psychology', the various factors that we know are related to happiness (genes, money, age, having children), and the question of why we can't just choose to be happy. We end with a discussion of pleasure and pain, and some puzzling findings about our memory of painful experiences.