Look away from your phone for a moment and consider: are you happy? In this episode Anastasiia and Rhiannon join Jennifer De Paola, a postdoc in Social Psychology, to discuss happiness.
How do we define it, how does it change over time and how can WE achieve it?
Jennifer De Paola is a post-doc researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. De Paola’s research focuses on how the abstract concept of happiness is shaped and constructed on various social media platforms, discussion forums and interactive online newspapers. This innovative approach to happiness studies from the perspective of naturally occurring data provided by social media has given popularity to De Paola’s research also outside the academia, in all major Finnish newspapers, and in several major newspapers in other European countries.
Your hosts this week are Anastasiia Marmyleva & Rhiannon Newman
Editing by Steven Simmonds
Title & caption by Kerttu Kalander
Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski
TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.
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