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So if you're so smart, then why aren't you

happy? Live Happy Science Editor Paula Phelps dives into this question today with Raj Ragunaten.

He's a professor of marketing at the McComb School of Business and the University of Texas

at Austin and he's interested in exploring the impact that

people's judgments and decisions have on their own happiness and fulfillment.

Raj also has an online course on happiness with over 120,000 students from literally every

country in the world, every one of them, even the new ones. Here's what he had to say to Paula.

Well, Raj, we're really, really

happy to have you with us here today. And I think one of the first questions that a lot of people

are going to wonder, you're a business school professor, so happiness isn't necessarily the

first thing that's going to come to mind that you're going to be studying. So can you tell me

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