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Michael Plant
@MichaelDPlant
Moral philosopher and happiness nerd. Founder and Director, @HappierLivesIns. Postdoctoral Fellow @OxWellResearch @UniofOxford. All views yours, weirdly.
Jul 21, 2023 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Excellent, provocative paper. Researchers look at the most-recommended happiness strategies in the media and then assess whether they are supported by the best evidence.
🧵on the study and my thoughts
https://t.co/Jta1fx6aaNnature.com/articles/s4156…
Image First, IMO this is the most useful type of happiness research: we want to compare what people *think* works vs what *the evidence* says; that way, we learn what we could do better.

Often, happiness research is just about the evidence, but doesn't contrast this with expectations
Nov 24, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
This picture might not look like much, but it represents a new answer to the question, ‘how can I do the most good?’

It's taken over 3 years and 10,000 hours of research to get here.

What am I talking about?🧵to explain.
Please read, then AMA about this research! Image My team and I @HappierLivesIns took the charities @GiveWell recommends as the best in the world.
We reevaluated their impact *in terms of happiness*.
We then compared these to @MakeStrongMinds.
We find SM is a lot better under almost all assumptions
happierlivesinstitute.org/2022/11/24/202…
Jan 26, 2021 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
Much-tweeted paper "Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75,000 per year". I'm a happiness researcher. I explain why the title should be "Money barely increases happiness (unless you really value money, and even then not by much)" pnas.org/content/118/4/… (1/15) First, context. In 2010, two (now) Nobel Laureates @kahneman_daniel and @DeatonAngus publish "High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being" using survey of 450,000 Americans. pnas.org/content/107/38…
Nov 11, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
(1/n) A thorough and thoughtful new report from @Happi_Research on #wellbeing in age of #covid and what we might do to look after our own #happiness. My main takeaways follow: 1) people worry more as case rates go up
2) big impacts on loneliness, particularly for single and unemployed.
3) oddly(?), among singles, living with >3 people was worse than living alone
4) meditation, speaking to friends and family, and getting outside helped w/ loneliness