Yesterday, I wrote a post introducing the fact that recent Nobel Laureate in economics, Angus Deaton, has also accumulated a considerable body of research in the area of subjective wellbeing. If you´d like to have him explain his research to you in person – here you go:
Angus Deaton
Angus Deaton, the Nobel Prize, and Positive Psychology
Yesterday, the 2015 Nobel Prize for economics was awarded to British-American researcher Angus Deaton. While he received that honor for “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare” – Deaton also conducted a lot of research (mostly later in his career) that is heavily related to Positive Psychology.
By way of example, he was involved in research on the relationship of:
- subjective wellbeing and age;
- subjective wellbeing and income;
- subjective wellbeing and body height;
- subjective wellbeing and religion;
- subjective wellbeing and parenthood.
Congratulations!
Mappalicious 