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EPISODE · Jun 18, 2011 · 57 MIN

We are not happy. We are not cool.

from Sociology Improv · host Jon Smajda

This episode we talk about a recent paper about happiness (via Graphic Sociology) and whether or not happiness studies actually tell us anything about happiness. After that, we follow-up on an argument Chris made last episode about “being cool” as a cause of human social behavior. The sound is a little rough this week as […]

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[1]This episode we talk about a recent paper about happiness [2] (via Graphic Sociology [3]) and whether or not happiness studies actually tell us anything about happiness. After that, we follow-up on an argument Chris made last episode about “being cool” as a cause of human social behavior. The sound is a little rough this week as three out of the four of us were actually in the same room for a change, which is actually harder to record than four people in four different cities using Skype. Download Improv 27 [4]! [1] https://thesocietypages.org/improv/files/2011/06/album-art-ep27.png [2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2011.00389.x/pdf [3] https://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/2011/05/17/are-people-who-have-kids-happier-not-really/ [4] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/socimprov27.mp3

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