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June 15, 2023
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How to Build a Life: The Path to Happiness Is Narrow But Easy

July 30, 2020
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How to Build a Life: ‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special Over Being Happy

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10 Feb 2009
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Who Really Is Your Friend? Pursuing Happiness in Your Perception of Social Networks

By: Lalin Anik and Michael I. Norton

10 Feb 2008
Conference Presentation

Life really is nasty, brutish, and short—and no one is happy about it

By: Lalin Anik, Michael I. Norton, Lara B. Aknin and Elizabeth W. Dunn

November 19, 2020
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How to Build a Life: Sedentary Pandemic Life Is Bad for Our Happiness

The times when we most want comfort and rest may paradoxically be the times we most need to move, for the sake of our well-being. View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Welfare

August 24, 2023
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How to Build a Life: How to Get the Most Happiness from Your Social Life

February 2011
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It's the Recipient That Counts: Spending Money on Strong Social Ties Leads to Greater Happiness Than Spending on Weak Social Ties

By: Lara B. Aknin, Gillian M. Sandstrom, Elizabeth W. Dunn and Michael I. Norton

Previous research has shown that spending money on others (prosocial spending) increases happiness. But, do the happiness gains depend on who the money is spent on? Sociologists have distinguished between strong ties with close friends and family and weak... View Details

Keywords: Happiness; Relationships; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving

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August 12, 2021
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How to Build a Life: The Link Between Happiness and a Sense of Humor

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December 31, 2020
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How to Build a Life: New Year's Resolutions That Will Actually Lead to Happiness

February 17, 2022
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How to Build a Life: The Seven Habits That Lead to Happiness in Old Age

April 2013 (Revised February 2018)
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Norway: The Embarrassment of Riches

By: Sophus A. Reinert, Forest Reinhardt and Senny Munthe-Kaas

In early 2013, Norway was by many accounts the world’s most developed country; it topped various indices for everything from democracy to happiness, had a comprehensive welfare state, and massive oil revenues endowed it with a substantial, and growing, Sovereign Wealth... View Details

Keywords: Sovereign Wealth Funds; Welfare State; Natural Resources; Internationalization; Dutch Disease; Happiness; Macroeconomics; Energy Sources; Values and Beliefs; Sovereign Finance; Immigration; Welfare; Energy Industry; Norway

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Every Large Point Set Contains Many Collinear Points or an Empty Pentagon

By: Zachary Abel, Brad Ballinger, Prosenjit Bose, Sébastien Collette, Vida Dujmović, Ferran Hurtado, Scott Duke Kominers, Stefan Langerman, Attila Pór and David Wood

We prove the following generalised empty pentagon theorem for every integer ℓ ≥ 2, every sufficiently large set of points in the plane contains ℓ collinear points or an empty pentagon. As an application, we settle the next open case of the “big line or big clique”... View Details

Keywords: Erdős-Szekeres Theorem; Happy End Problem; Big Line Or Big Clique Conjecture; Empty Quadrilateral; Empty Pentagon; Empty Hexagon