“The Scientific Pursuit of Happiness,”
February 23, 2015, 4:14, 105 Lawrence Hall
David G. Myers, John Dirk Werkman Professor of Psychology, Hope College
“Traditional Roots of Happiness and What Public Policy can do to Enhance it”
March 26, 2015, 4:15, 105 Lawrence Hall
Ronald Inglehart, Research Professor in the Center for Political Studies and a Professor of Political Science from the University of Michigan,
The Myth of Happiness: What Should Make you Happy, but Doesn’t, What Shouldn’t Make you Happy, but Does
April 10, 2015, 4:15, 101 Meyerhoff Auditorium
Sonja Lyubomirsky, Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Co-sponsored by the Division of Natural Sciences
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