{"id":605,"date":"2020-07-08T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=605"},"modified":"2023-05-03T14:27:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T21:27:58","slug":"the-happiness-issue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/magazine\/the-happiness-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Happiness Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\n Finding Your Happy Place\n <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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We puzzled long and hard over what to put on our cover for this issue. Happiness means so many different things to so many different people. How to distill its essence into one perfect image of joy?<\/p>\n

By Susan Bell<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n

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\n Happiness Across the Life Span<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Contrary to popular opinion, when it comes to our well-being, our lives do not represent an inevitable decline from the sunny uplands of youth to the valley of death. Instead the opposite is true\u00a0\u2014 we can confidently look forward to old age as the happiest time of our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n It Was the Best of Times<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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History has no laugh track, so how do we measure our changing conceptions of happiness through the ages?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n And Now, Live From New York…<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Ego Nwodim ’10, now in her second season as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, graduated from USC Dornsife with a degree in biological sciences \u2014 never doubting she would succeed as an actor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Looking for Happiness in All the Wrong Places<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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We believe that love and money will make our lives happier. But will they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Happiness Around the Globe<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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USC Dornsife researchers are creating innovative new products and businesses to mend the planet and create a strong economy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Happy Families<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Our family relationships have considerable impact on our well-being \u2014 both positive and negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Profile: Jingmai O’Connor<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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After earning her Ph.D. in Earth sciences from USC Dornsife in 2009, Jingmai O\u2019Connor has carved out a stellar career as a paleontologist in China, where she found not only access to thousands of exceptional fossils that can\u2019t be seen anywhere else in the world \u2014 but also the freedom to be herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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