What Works Wellbeing blog:
If you want to know how happy we are, ask often
10 November 2017
Today we publish a new discussion series paper, that sets out the views of Paul Dolan, Laura Kudrna and Stefano Testoni on the importance of ‘in the moment’ wellbeing and measurement for understanding – and acting on- wellbeing evidence.
Researchers Paul Dolan, Laura Kudrna and Stefano Testoni argue, in their paper Definitions and Measures of Subjective Wellbeing, that to capture what really matters to people, we need to switch from measuring overall life satisfaction, to how we feel in the moment.
Related links
Paul Dolan CEP publications webpage: http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publications/author.asp?author=dolan