WHAT MAKES US HAPPY?

What Makes Us Happy?

What Makes Us Happy?

Introduction

The article highlights the work of psychiatrist George Vaillant, who was a long time director of the current longitudinal study conducted at Harvard University. This study, after 268 male graduates of Harvard since the late 1930's forward, and aimed at identifying the presence or absence of a formula for the "good life". We observed people in the college years of marriage, fatherhood, war, disease, divorce, health and old age. I do not know why women were not included in this study, but it probably had something to do with the views of ...