Which countries are happiest and why? With Lara Aknin, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

Kim Mills

Health & Fitness, Life Sciences, Science, Mental Health

4.3 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The 2024 World Happiness Report, which ranks the happiness levels of countries around the world, found that young Americans are less happy than their peers in many other countries. Psychology professor Lara Aknin, PhD, an editor of the report, talks about how the report defines happiness, why young people’s happiness levels may have dropped in the U.S, what drives happiness, and why being generous makes people happy – even when they don’t have much to spare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.7	North Americans. The report, which ranks the
0:40.1	happiness levels of countries around the world, found that young people in the United States
0:44.9	in Canada are less happy than ever before. In fact, Americans under age 30 are so unhappy
0:51.1	that they pulled the overall ranking of the United States out of the top 20 for the
0:56.1	first time since the report began more than a decade ago. Today we're going to talk with one of
1:00.9	the report's editors about its findings and about global trends in happiness. We'll also dig into
1:06.1	what psychological research has to say about what really makes people happy. So why have young people's
1:12.4	happiness levels dropped in North America compared with the rest of the world? How does happiness
1:17.8	change over the lifespan? And what are some of the key drivers of happiness at any age?
1:25.7	Welcome to Speaking of Psychology, the flagship podcast of the American Psychological Association that examines the links between psychological science and everyday life.
1:35.6	I'm Kim Mills.
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