Psychologist: Seven things to add or subtract for happiness, according to science

Jacqueline Nesi, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, assistant professor at Brown University, and author of the popular weekly newsletter Techno Sapiens. As a clinical psychologist and researcher, I love learning about the science of happiness. Nothing brings me happiness like studies about wellbeing: how to increase it, how to maintain it, how to spread it to others.

There’s just one, pesky little problem: Many of these studies are nonsense. So, how do we know what to believe? What will actually make us happy ? Let’s take a look at the science..