How Happiness is Changing in the U.S. With Dr. Lara Aknin

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🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Each year, the release of the World Happiness Report gives new insight into global well-being. On this episode, host Paula Felps talks with Dr. Lara Aknin, a distinguished professor of psychology at Simon Fraser University and one of the editors of the report. Lara explains why the U.S. fell out of the top 20 happiest countries for the first time in the report’s history, which age group is thriving in the U.S., and shares some encouraging findings about how benevolence is changing worldwide. In this episode, you’ll learn: What age group is happiest around the world — and how it differs in the U.S. What is driving unhappiness among America’s young people. Good news about well-being and dementia.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for episode 461 of Live Happy Now.
0:07.8	Last week, the annual World Happiness Report was released, and this week's guest is helping
0:12.7	break down what it all means.
0:15.5	I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and today I'm talking with Dr. Lara Acknan, a distinguished
0:20.6	professor of psychology at Simon Fraser University, and today I'm talking with Dr. Lara Acknan, a distinguished professor of psychology at
0:22.1	Simon Fraser University and one of the editors of the World Happiness Report. She's here to tell us
0:28.7	why the U.S. fell out of the top 20 happiest countries for the first time since the report has been
0:34.0	published, which age group is thriving in the U.S. and talk about why our young people are struggling right now.
0:40.9	She also shares some really encouraging findings about well-being and dementia,
0:44.6	as well as how benevolence is changing worldwide.
0:48.1	Let's have a listen.
0:49.6	Lara, thank you for joining me today on Live Happy Now.
0:52.8	Thank you for having me.
0:54.3	Every year this is such a big time for us because the World Happiness Report comes out and we dig into it and we try to cover it the best that we can.
1:02.2	And so I appreciate you sitting down and talking about it.
1:04.9	How long have you been involved in working with the report?
1:08.1	I have been involved for about five years now back in 2019, I believe it was. My
1:13.3	memory since COVID is a little fuzzy, but I believe it was 2019. My colleagues and I contributed a
1:18.1	chapter, the World Happiness Report on some of the research we do regarding kindness and
1:23.1	happiness. And then shortly after that, I was invited to join the editorial team.
1:27.9	Nice. Nice. So it's such an important report. We learn new things every year. And for those who don't
1:34.4	know, the report has certain themes it covers every year. And then it'll kind of branch out and do
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