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American social scientist, Harvard Business School professor, and former president of the American Enterprise Institute who studies the science of happiness, arguing that meaning, relationships, and transcendence — not achievement — are the sources of lasting wellbeing.
The world's longest-running scientific study of adult life, tracking Harvard graduates and inner-city Boston men from the 1930s to the present — whose primary finding is that the quality of relationships is the single strongest predictor of health and happiness in old age.
American psychologist at UC Riverside — author of The How of Happiness — whose research on the determinants of happiness and the 40% solution (40% of happiness variance is within voluntary control) is foundational to positive psychology.
A book in the Modern Wisdom ecosystem exploring the architecture of a meaningful life through the lens of social science and philosophy — examining how purpose, relationships, and transcendence interact to produce genuine human flourishing.