Work with thought leaders and academic experts in Happiness

Companies can greatly benefit from collaborating with academic researchers whose expertise is in the field of Happiness. These researchers can provide valuable insights and strategies to enhance employee well-being, improve productivity, and create a positive work culture. By conducting research and analyzing data, they can identify factors that contribute to happiness in the workplace and develop evidence-based interventions. Additionally, academic researchers can offer training programs and workshops to help employees develop skills such as resilience, mindfulness, and emotional intelligence. Collaborating with these experts can lead to higher employee engagement, reduced turnover, and increased overall organizational success.

Researchers on NotedSource with backgrounds in Happiness include Kostadin Kushlev, Ryan Howell, Dr. Cassie Mogilner Holmes, Ph.D., Dr. Erin Westgate, Ph.D., Sonja Lyubomirsky, Jennifer Aaker, Eric S. Kim, Ph.D., Mohsen Omrani, Bernd Stahl, Elizabeth Dunn, Dr. Sergey Kornilov, and Marian Grendar, Ph.D..

Kostadin Kushlev

Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
13 Years Experience
My research focuses on interventions to improve well-being by promoting better digital habits.
Education

University of British Columbia

PhD, Psychology / August, 2015

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Reed College

B.A., Psychology / May, 2008

Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Experience

Georgetown University

Assistant Professor / August, 2018 — Present

University of Virginia

Research Scientist / August, 2015 — August, 2018

Research Expertise (4)
Social Psychology
Communication
Applied Psychology
Human-Computer Interaction
About
I am broadly interested in the factors that promote or diminish happiness and well-being. My research program explores how constant connectivity to the Internet impacts people’s relationships and well-being and how we can harness technology to improve well-being and promote positive behavioral change. I am a Vanier Scholar and a Rising Star of the Association for Psychological Science (APS). I have written for *The* *New York Times*, *The Conversation*, and *Psychology Today*, and my work has been covered by other prestigious publications such as *The* *Economist, BBC, NPR, Forbes, Fast Company, Time Magazine, The Wall Stree Journal, National Geographic,* and *The Washington Post*. I have consulted for companies such as Ipsos, Canvas8, and Luce Research. See more at www.kushlev.com

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Ryan Howell

San Francisco , California, United States of America
18 Years Experience
Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, San Francisco State University
Education

University of California, Riverside

PhD, Social / Personality Psychology Division / 2005

Riverside, California, United States of America

University of California, Riverside

MA, Social / Personality Psychology / 2002

Riverside, California, United States of America

Westmont College

BSc, Psychology / 1998

Santa Barbara, California, United States of America
Experience

San Francisco State University, Department of Psychology

Associate Professor / 2012 — Present

Most Relevant Research Expertise
Happiness
Other Research Expertise (33)
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
History and Philosophy of Science
Applied Psychology
Social Psychology
And 28 more
About
Dr. Ryan Howell is an Associate Professor at San Francisco State University. His research interests include the psychology of goals and how people pursue and achieve them. Dr. Howell received his PhD in Social/Personality Psychology from the University of California, Riverside in 2005.

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Dr. Cassie Mogilner Holmes, Ph.D.

16 Years Experience
Award-winning UCLA professor researching and teaching happiness and the role of time
Education

PhD, Marketing / June, 2009

Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Columbia University

B.A., Psychology / May, 2002

New York, New York, United States of America
Experience

Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

Associate Professor / July, 2015 — July, 2016

Researcher of Happiness and Time; Taught Brand Management to MBAs

Assistant Professor / July, 2009 — July, 2015

Researcher of Happiness and Time; Taught Brand Management to MBAs

UCLA Anderson School of Management

Professor / July, 2020 — Present

Bud Knapp Chaired Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Decision Making; Researcher of Happiness and Time; Teaches "Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design" to MBAs and Executive MBAs

Associate Professor / April, 2016 — July, 2020

Donnalisa ’86 and Bill Barnum Endowed Term Chair in Management; Researcher of Happiness and Time; Teaches "Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design" to MBAs and Executive MBAs

Gallery Books, Simon & Schuster

Author of HAPPIER HOUR: HOW TO BEAT DISTRACTION, EXPAND YOUR TIME, AND FOCUS ON WHAT MATTERS MOST / September, 2022 — Present

Most Relevant Research Expertise
happiness
Other Research Expertise (2)
time
subjective well-being
About
Cassie Holmes is a chaired professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, an award-winning teacher and researcher on time and happiness, and bestselling author of *Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most*.   *Happier Hour* is a *Wall Street Journal* Bestseller, and was selected as an Amazon Best Book of 2022, a “must read” by *Forbes,* the *Washington Post,* and the *Financial Times*, and was featured in such outlets as the Today Show, CBS Mornings, CNN, NPR’s Hidden Brain, and GOOP with Gwyneth Paltrow.   Holmes’s academic research has been widely published in lead academic journals. The course that she developed and now teaches, Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design, is among UCLA’s most popular for MBAs and Executive MBAs alike.   Prior to joining UCLA, Cassie was a tenured faculty member at Wharton, and she has a Ph.D. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from Columbia.

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Dr. Erin Westgate, Ph.D.

5 Years Experience
Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, researching boredom, interest, and thinking (and why we're so bad at it)
Education

University of Virginia

Ph.D., Psychology

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Reed College

B.A., Psychology / May, 2010

Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Experience

University of Florida

Assistant Professor / 2019 — Present

The Ohio State University

Postdoctoral Researcher / 2018 — 2019

Research Expertise (17)
social psychology
social cognition
emotion
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
And 12 more
About
**Dr. Erin Westgate** (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Florida, where she studies boredom, interest, and why some thoughts are more engaging than others. ​She received her PhD in social psychology from the University of Virginia in 2018, and her undergraduate degree from Reed College. Much of her research has been on the conditions under which people enjoy or do not enjoy their own thoughts. She has extended that work to the larger question of why people become bored, developing a new model of boredom that explains what boredom is, why we experience it, and what happens when we do.  As part of this, she is investigating our desire for a life full of interesting, perspective-changing experiences - or a “psychologically rich” life.

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Sonja Lyubomirsky

Distinguished Professor, University of California, Riverside
Education

Stanford University

PhD, Social Psychology / 1994

Stanford, California, United States of America

Harvard University

A.B., Psychology / 1989

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Experience

University of California, Riverside

Distinguished Professor

Research Expertise (31)
well-being
History and Philosophy of Science
Sociology and Political Science
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Clinical Psychology
And 26 more
About
Professor Lyubomirsky’s research interests include well-being, happiness, self-regulation, and talents. She is widely published, with well over 100 articles and chapters and four books, The How of Happiness (Penguin, 2007), The Myths of Happiness (Penguin, 2013), The How of Happiness Workbook (Penguin, 2008), and Designing Your Life (Avery, 2016). Professor Lyubomirsky has received numerous awards for her work, including the American Psychological Association’s Positive Psychology Prize (2015), the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (2009), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008-2009). She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association.

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Jennifer Aaker

18 Years Experience
General Atlantic Professor, Stanford University
Education

Stanford University

PhD, Marketing, minor in Psychology / 1996

Stanford, California, United States of America

University of California, Berkeley

BA, Psychology / 1989

Berkeley, California, United States of America
Experience

Stanford Graduate School of Business

General Atlantic Professor / 2005 — Present

Research Expertise (23)
The psychology of time
money
and happiness
Marketing
Economics and Econometrics
And 18 more
About
Jennifer Aaker is a marketing professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the author of several books on the topic, including The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways to Use Social Media to Drive Social Change. She has also conducted research on the psychology of happiness and self-regulation.

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Eric S. Kim, Ph.D.

Vancouver
14 Years Experience
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia
Experience

UnitedHealth Group

Consultant / January, 2015 — February, 2021

AARP

Consultant / January, 2015 — Present

IDEO

Consultant / July, 2018 — February, 2021

Research Expertise (33)
health psychology
social epidemiology
aging
well-being
purpose & meaning
And 28 more
About
Dr. Kim's program of research aims to identify, understand, and intervene upon the dimensions of psychological well-being (sense of purpose in life, optimism) that reduce the risk of age-related conditions. <br> Around this topic, he has given invited lectures at Universities (Harvard, U. of Penn, MIT, Columbia U.), corporations (UnitedHealth Care, IDEO, AARP, Samsung), and he’s also been invited to speak at and join the working groups of national- and international-think-tanks (United Nations, OECD, Aspen Ideas Festival, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, The Task Force for Global Health, World Government Summit, National Academy of Sciences). He’s also been recognized as one of Forbe’s 30 Under 30 in Healthcare, recipient of the American Journal of Epidemiology's Paper of the Year Award, the American Psychological Association Division 20 (Aging) Early Career Achievement Award, and an Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Star. His insights have been featured in the: NY Times, Atlantic, BBC News, NPR, Washington Post. His research has been cited by policy statements/guidelines formulated by the: United Nations, National Academy of Sciences, American Heart Association, the U.S. Surgeon General. Population aging is one of the most important social trends of the 21st century. In both Canada and the U.S., the # of adults aged ≥65 is projected to increase by 45%-55% in the next 15 years. As societies grapple with the rising tide of chronic conditions, healthcare costs, and long-term care costs, it is imperative to develop a science that informs a more comprehensive approach to healthy aging. Dr. Kim’s overarching goal is to substantially help improve the psychological well-being and physical health of our rapidly growing population. In pursuit of this goal, his program of research revolves around 4 interwoven questions. He studies: 1) Several dimensions of psychological well-being (sense of purpose in life, optimism) and how they relate to health outcomes. 2) The behavioral, biological, and neural mechanisms underlying the association between psychological well-being and health. 3) How an individual’s psychological well-being interacts with the surrounding environment to influence behavioral and physical health outcomes; for example, at the meso-level (dyadic dynamics in couples, neighborhood contexts, altruism/volunteering) and the macro-level (social cohesion, social and racial disparities). 4) And he partners with non-profit/healthcare companies to conduct translational research that test scalable interventions.

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Mohsen Omrani

5 Years Experience
CEO at OPTT Inc.
Experience

OPTT Health

Co-founder & CEO / June, 2018 — Present

Research Expertise (14)
Electrophysiology
Motor control
sensory motor transformation
Neuromodulation
Mental Health
And 9 more
About
I am passionate about technology and its use to make life better for all others. My goal is to utilize my expertise in medicine, neurology, and technology to design tools for improving mental health. <br> The growing demand for quality mental health care isn’t going anywhere. At OPTT, I lead a team of exceptional people to build digital mental health solutions for the population. Our team is working hard to change the way mental health care is delivered. With the use of AI technology, OPTT provides health care professionals with insights for effective care pathways.

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Bernd Stahl

36 Years Experience
Director of the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility
Education

De Montfort University

DSc, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility

Leicester

De Montfort University

LLM in Business Law / October, 2007

Leicester

University Witten / Herdecke

PhD, Philosophy and Economics / November, 2002

Witten
Experience

University of Nottingham

Professor of Critical Research in Technology / October, 2022 — Present

De Montfort University

Director / June, 2003 — September, 2023

University College Dublin

Lecturer in Information Systems / September, 2000 — March, 2003

Research Expertise (53)
critical theory
information systems
computer ethics
information ethics
responsible innovation
And 48 more

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Elizabeth Dunn

20 Years Experience
Happiness researcher and Professor of Social Psychology, University of British Columbia
Education

Harvard University

B.A., Psychology / May, 1999

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

University of Virginia

Ph.D., Psychology / May, 2004

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
Experience

University of British Columbia

Professor / July, 2005 — Present

Most Relevant Research Expertise
Happiness
Other Research Expertise (3)
Technology
Time
Social Engagement

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Dr. Sergey Kornilov

15 Years Experience
Computational and Systems Biology
Education

University of Connecticut

Ph.D., Experimental Psychology / July, 2014

Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D., Educational Psychology / September, 2012

Moscow
Research Expertise (48)
Precision Medicine
Multi-omics
Data Science
Cognitive Neuroscience
Psychometrics
And 43 more

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Marian Grendar, Ph.D.

7 Years Experience
Experience

Biomedical Center Martin, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University

February, 2016 — Present

Research Expertise (58)
Gastroenterology
Hepatology
Cancer Research
Oncology
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
And 53 more

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Example Happiness projects

How can companies collaborate more effectively with researchers, experts, and thought leaders to make progress on Happiness?

Developing a Happiness Index

An academic researcher can work with a company to develop a happiness index that measures employee satisfaction, engagement, and well-being. This index can provide valuable insights into the factors that contribute to happiness in the workplace and help identify areas for improvement.

Designing a Positive Work Culture

By collaborating with an academic researcher, a company can design and implement strategies to create a positive work culture. This may include initiatives such as promoting work-life balance, fostering a sense of community, and recognizing and rewarding employee achievements.

Implementing Employee Well-being Programs

Academic researchers can help companies develop and implement employee well-being programs. These programs may include activities such as mindfulness training, stress management workshops, and physical fitness initiatives, all aimed at improving employee happiness and overall well-being.

Measuring the Impact of Happiness Interventions

Collaborating with an academic researcher allows companies to measure the impact of happiness interventions. By collecting and analyzing data, researchers can assess the effectiveness of interventions such as employee recognition programs, flexible work arrangements, and leadership development initiatives.

Conducting Employee Surveys and Assessments

Academic researchers can assist companies in conducting employee surveys and assessments to gather data on employee happiness, job satisfaction, and work-life balance. This data can provide valuable insights for making informed decisions and implementing targeted interventions.