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Raise happiness; lessen impunity
7 October 2017
Raise happiness. “Towards a better society” was the theme of the well-attended 2017 conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, on Sept. 27-30. It had 5 invited plenary lectures and some 300 presentations, in as many as 6 simultaneous sessions, of scholarly research on quality of life (QOL) and its relevance for policymaking. … In his lecture, Prof. Lord Richard Layard, author of “Happiness—Lessons from a New Science” (2005), maintained that a society should be judged by its people’s satisfaction with life as a whole. Subjective, or self-reported, experience is an objective phenomenon; it correlates with electrical activity in relevant areas of the brain.
Related publications
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Richard Layard, Penguin, 2005. 2nd Edition 2011
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1080/14733140600986227/abstract
DOI: 10.1080/14733140600986227