{"id":190,"date":"2014-01-15T17:27:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T17:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=190"},"modified":"2020-07-27T22:05:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T21:05:22","slug":"measuring-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/measuring-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring Happiness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paul Dolan\/\u00a0Elaine Fox\/ Andrew Oswald\/ Ben Page<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/newsAndMedia\/videoAndAudio\/channels\/publicLecturesAndEvents\/player.aspx?id=2172\"><strong>Listen to the podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday 15 January 2014, 6.30 \u2013 8pm<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pauldolan.co.uk\/\"><strong>Paul Dolan<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Behavioural Science, LSE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psy.ox.ac.uk\/team\/principal-investigators\/elaine-fox\"><strong>Elaine Fox<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Cognitive &amp; Affective Psychology and Director of The Oxford Centre for Emotions and Affective Neuroscience, University of Oxford<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/soc\/economics\/staff\/academic\/oswald\/\"><strong>Andrew Oswald<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Economics, Warwick University<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsos-mori.com\/aboutus\/seniorstaff\/benpage.aspx\"><strong>Ben Page<\/strong><\/a>, Chief Executive, Ipsos MORI<\/p>\n<p>Chair:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/research\/forumForEuropeanPhilosophy\/whosWho\/Fellow-TaliSharot.aspx\"><strong>Tali Sharot<\/strong><\/a>, Faculty Member and Director of the Affective Brain Lab, Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, UCL and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron launched the \u2018happiness index\u2019 initiative, to calculate the wellbeing of the nation alongside financial data like GDP. The first reports regarding the nations\u2019 happiness were published last year. What does it mean to measure happiness? Can it really be measured? If so, how? Is this a more meaningful indicator of the state of the nation than GDP? What have we learned about the happiness of UK citizens? This session brought together neuroscientists, psychologists, and economists to discuss these issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Dolan\/\u00a0Elaine Fox\/ Andrew Oswald\/ Ben Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":11759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[74,31,87,77,32,73],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-economics","tag-neuroscience","tag-philosophysocialsciences","tag-policy","tag-psychology","tag-wellbeing"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/06\/interview-wide2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-34","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11946,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/11946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}