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What Makes Us Happy?

by JOSHUA WOLF SHENK May 14, 2009.

Print: The Atlantic

A long-running longitudinal study of Harvard College students that started in the 1930’s may begin to shed light on what factors are more conducive to happiness.  An example of scientific inquiry being used to examine issues that have traditionally been the domain of religion.