With the touring skis gathering dust and the camping gear slumbering in dry bags, I’ve been using the obligatory indoors time to work on some side projects with friends. Here’s a run down, with some notes on what I’ve learned … Keep reading
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How others’ fortunes affect your happiness predicts generosity
This week we published a paper building on Robb Rutledge’s 2014 happiness model (my summary here), but asking whether we could also capture fluctuations in happiness that relate to what’s happening to other people around you.
We used a … Keep reading
The Happiness Project
I’ve just finished a two week run at the Camden Roundhouse performing a play called The Happiness Project. This is a project I’ve been involved in for just over two years, which began as a low-key attempt to explore why … Keep reading
What’s the deal with modafinil?
The following is from a blog post I wrote recently for The Guardian. You can find the original here.
A great deal of excitement has been generated in recent weeks by a review paper examining the literature on the drug … Keep reading