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In 2014, psychologists at the University of California launched a course with one goal: Help students become happier in eight weeks.
Incredibly, it seemed to work. Thousands of students took the Science of Happiness course (which is still free to audit on edX, a provider of open online courses) and learned about the science of connection, compassion, gratitude, and mindfulness. Perhaps more importantly, they also completed a series of simple activities that research suggests increase happiness.
Those who fully participated saw their positive feelings increase each week. They reported feeling less sadness, stress, loneliness, anger, and fear, while at the same time experiencing more amusement, enthusiasm, and affection, as well as a greater sense of community. During the course, students’ happiness and life satisfaction increased by about 5%. And that boost remained even four months after the course ended, though it’s difficult to fully untangle that result. It could’ve been from doing the activities, the students’ new understanding of the psychology of happiness, or something totally different. How does this work? Can you really change how happy you are that easily? According to the research, yes.
The malleability of happiness
“There’s a misconception that happiness is built-in and that we can’t change it,” says Laurie Santos, a professor of psychology at Yale University who teaches a free Coursera class called The Science of Well-Being.
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