Harvard University wants to figure out what crap people happy and why . pack a sustained , multidisciplinary overture to the study of felicity , theHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Healthhas announced plans to launch the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness . The Atlanticreports that the nitty-gritty will promote and study “ positive psychological well-being , ” recruiting anthropologists , life scientist , and psychologists to add their unique viewpoints .
The Center for Happiness was made possible by a donation from the Lee Kum Kee troupe , and is named for Lee Kum Sheung , the artificer of oyster sauce . Its destination is to observe and examine positively charged component of social environment — like health , lifestyle , and relationships — to discern not only what qualities meliorate overall felicity , but whether felicity can belinked to other specific health benefits .
While there has been extensive public health research into negative psychological , forcible , and social phenomenon like unhealthful diet and disease , less research has been done on the positive phenomenon which can improve tone of life . Researchers consider that the subject of happiness could lend importantly to understandings of disease , psychological welfare , and even facilitate inform public insurance policy .
The Center will study the style everything from social media and TV to income and systemic inequality bear on excited wellbeing . Through the fabric of happiness , they hope to come up to wide - ranging issue , and even , eventually , identify a measurement index for systematically and scientifically quantifying felicity .
“ Would you rather live a farseeing , well-chosen , and healthy life , or a liveliness that is merely without disease ? ” Laura Kubzansky , co - director of the raw shopping mall take in apress discharge . “ aesculapian and psychological practice session and research have traditionally focused on the diseases and deficits that cause poor health . But there is real value in focusing on the positively charged side as well — the assets that keep us levelheaded or help us recover more quickly from disease and injury . More stringent research is urgently needed to understand these convinced assets and how to promote them for jillion of people around the world . ”
[ h / tThe Atlantic ]
