What is wellbeing | Kate Laffan | TEDxLSE

In this talk, Kate will explore the different philosophical perspectives on what wellbeing is. She will then detail the efforts in subjective wellbeing research to understand wellbeing using individuals’ own reports of how they think about their lives and feel as they go about them and make a case for their use in our efforts to understand what the good life is and how to promote it.
Dr Kate Laffan is an Assistant Professor in Behavioral Science at the Department of Psychological and Behavioral Science (PBS) at the London School of Economics. Kate carries out research at the intersection of economics and psychology aimed at producing policy-relevant insights which can help to address environmental challenges and promote human wellbeing. Her work has been published in leading

[hearttalk-drcharleslee]

Brilliant discourse on a very important aspect to living 'The Good Life'. Thank you Kate.

[pmccoy]

Excellent work providing an overview of psychological well-being, with concepts, theories, and data analysis.

[NikolayGanovski]

very interesting topic but sorry, the speaker is not that engaging and fun... quite boring.