Sentences with phrase «happiness of americans»

«Our study revealed an unexplained correlation between the happiness today of some nations and the observed happiness of Americans whose ancestors came from these nations,» says Professor Oswald.

Not exact matches

She explains her research in a recent piece in The Atlantic: «To examine long - term trends in happiness in the U.S., my colleagues and I merged reams of survey data from 1972 to 2014, from four nationally representative samples totaling 1.3 million Americans.

Seventy - four per cent of working Americans say that volunteering gives them a sense of purpose at their company while almost as many say it improves their overall morale and happiness, according to the most recent Deloitte Volunteerism Survey.

Sure enough, teens» happiness suddenly plummeted after 2012 (the year when the majority of Americans owned smartphones).

That was the message of a talk by Dr. Miriam Tatzel at the American Psychological Association's 122nd annual convention, which was held recently in Washington, D.C. Presenting her research to the assembled psychologists, Tatzel stressed the importance of playing down consumerism as a route to fulfillment and boiled down the research on the subject into a handful of scientifically validated principles to follow for greater happiness.

The American Meteorological Society published research in 2011 that found current temperature has a bigger effect on our happiness than variables like wind speed and humidity, or even the average temperature over the course of a day.

One study conducted at UC Riverside found that Anglo - Americans benefitted more from happiness - increasing activities; however, researchers did see a small trend that Asians gained more from activities directed toward benefitting others» happiness, like writing a letter of gratitude, than activities strictly intended to benefit the self.

That much should probably be apparent from a quick Google search or a trip to your local bookstore, but if you need convincing, a host of experts will tell you that, thanks to a cultural fixation on positivity and the economic imperatives of the gigantic self - help industry, Americans are endlessly bombarded with happiness advice these days.

«As with many great American institutions, i.e., General Motors, American Airlines, and many others who have utilized the strategic business tool called bankruptcy, Gary Busey's filing is the final chapter in a process that began a few years ago of jettisoning the litter of past unfortunate choices, associations, events and circumstances that visited themselves upon this great American icon, to enable the start of a new and clear path to peace, happiness and success with his career and his wonderful new soulmate, Steffanie, and their son, Luke.»

A Strayer survey recently found that 90 percent of Americans define success as more about happiness than power, possessions, or prestige.

A study by Strayer University found that 90 % of Americans believe happiness is a bigger indicator of success than power, possessions, or prestige.

Unfortunately, so much of American culture has linked happiness with consumption — this is why we feel happy, albeit temporarily when we buy stuff.

«Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness» is a phrase that just about every American is familiar with.

And though we can conceive of experiences in out life that would be unprecedented in their fullness of both happiness and individuality — having a firstborn son, winning American Idol, curing cancer — we've developed a very mature (sometimes premature) resignation to the ultimate transience of these experiences.

It's not quite right to think of we Americans as questing after fugitive moments of happiness; really, we're questing after fleeting respites from happiness, too, just as we're oscillating constantly in our strivings for individuality on the one hand and a relief from individuality on the other.

Some might say this is what materialism gets you, duh; but Hobbes was as little a nihilist as we restless Americans who long for full experiences of happiness but also long for full experiences of individuality.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

In recent years, conservative Aristotelian - Thomists like Patrick Deneen and Alasdair MacIntyre have made the argument that a moral philosophy entailing a substantive account of human happiness or fulfillment is simply incompatible with the American liberal - democratic political order.

In a piece entitled «The happiness of pursuit», in Time magazine July 2013, we read: «All human beings may come equipped with the pursuit - of - happiness impulse — the urge to find lusher land just over the hill, fatter buffalo in the next valley — but it's Americans who have codified the idea, written it into the Declaration of Independence and made it a central mandate of the national character.»

(An excerpt from the book, focusing on the happiness / misery calculus, appeared in the April issue of Scientific American, under the title «The Tyranny of Choice.»)

Next we will have NAMBLA (The North American Man / Boy Love Association) demanding there right to pursuit of happiness, where does it stop?

Liberals believe all men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as evidenced by the 13 colonies of liberal (for their time) folks on the North American continent.

As an American Jew, I enjoy all holidays... Jewish and Christian... I love to see the happiness of children at Christmas time and their anticipation of gifts... the joy of children at Chanukah with the prospect of getting gifts every day for 8 days... it's innocent... joyful... and absent of malice.

Instead of lamenting the fact that Americans seemed to be more intent on individual happiness than upon public good, some began to argue that just such a principle was the basis of the new American system The new Constitution, it was felt, harnessed individual acquisitiveness to public order.

Apparently the phrase «pursuit of happiness» shouldn't be extended to all Americans, judging by the comments on this article.

The best American Thomist, the philosopher - physician - novelist Walker Percy, agrees that the Americans, who really are Cartesians who've never read a word of Descartes, need Pascal to understand that their legendary pursuit of happiness is mostly a diversion about what they really can't help but know about themselves.

The moral treason of the «conservative» leaders lies in the fact that they are hiding behind that camouflage: they do not have the courage to admit that the American way of life was capitalism, that that was the politico - economic system born and established in the United States, the system which, in one brief century, achieved a level of freedom, of progress, of prosperity, of human happiness, unmatched in all the other systems and centuries combined — and that that is the system which they are now allowing to perish by silent default.

Consumer goods seem far less important to the scale of happiness than North American consumers take them to be.

Yes, but the immigrants assimilated into the larger American society by adopting our founding principles - life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness - not by insisting society adapt to the cultures they came from.

Perhaps one day Americans will honor our founders and support their declaration: We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Why would we as Americans not want our government and its laws to recognize that same marriage sanctity for gay and lesbian individuals in their pursuit of liberty and happiness?

Traditional attitudes toward the natural environment make Indians, like the Japanese, more disposed than Americans to pursue happiness modestly.15 And almost six decades after his assassination, Gandhi's traditionalist emphasis on austerity and self - abnegation remains a powerful part of Indian identity.

In a recent book, the distinguished American political scientist Robert A. Dahl offers an optimistic vision in which «an increasing awareness that the dominant culture of competitive consumerism does not lead to greater happiness gives way to a culture of citizenship that strongly encourages movement toward greater political equality among American citizens.»

«We are dominated by the essentially Enlightenment values that rule American culture: pursuit of happiness, unrestricted freedom of choice, disdain for authority» (The Divine Conspiracy, 214).

That may be true, (your comment above), however, we could poll all Americans, about their «desire» to work where they want to work and their relative enjoyment / happiness or lack - thereof of said job or profession, whatever it may be.

In the book «Hitlers Cross» Lutzer claims that the cross of Christ was used as a symbol of a Nazi Agenda and draws comparison between this and an agenda for happiness he claims exists predominantly in American Christianity.

When used justly» and in the American system this means at its basis to protect the essential goods of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness at which American democracy aims» coercive force is not an evil at all but an instrument of good.

«We need to find ways to provide a better value, and hopefully the next few years will see a rekindling of the American spirit of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.»

Acknowledging the rise in childless by choice movements, the decline in overall parental happiness, and co-parenting strife among couples, Valenti ambitiously packages a modern portrait of American family that is true to our circumstances, not our daytime television segments.

Recent research indicates American kids today are falling short in terms of academic achievement, happiness, and wellness - when compared to the rest of the world.

But affluence, he contentiously insists to those raised on the American Dream, is no guarantee of happiness or fulfilment.

Drawing on the words of the poet René Char as he tracked his own discovery of it during his days fighting for it in the French resistance, Arendt defines this public treasure in the language of those 18th century American revolutionaries who were willing to die for it: «the public happiness», or for the French revolutionaries: «public freedom», for Rousseau «popular sovereignty».

No one can possibly understand the American Revolution — more properly described as the American secession from the British Empire — without grasping its theoretical dimensions, beginning with the claims of the Declaration of Independence endorsing popular sovereignty and the ability of the people to «alter and abolish» existing systems of government whenever that would be thought conducive to public happiness.

American liberalism, on the other hand, because it emerged partly from Progressivism, tends to take a more utilitarian perspective on such things, viewing autonomy merely as a means to an end, the end being increasing the happiness of as many people as possible.

There's one other way that American liberalism differs from classical liberalism: classical liberals took a deontological perspective on liberty, viewing personal autonomy and the pursuit of happiness as things that are inherently worthy of being promoted, regardless of what they lead to.

Thus American liberalism advocates that the government should play some role in the economy in order to give people autonomy and enable them to pursue their own happiness, along the lines of the «responsiveness» part of the Progressive philosophy.

He believes that the study, the results of which were published last year in the journal American Psychologist, was the first to rigorously test happiness - creating interventions.

In a nation where incomes rise throughout adulthood, the findings could explain why Americans buy more and more to sustain a base level of happiness.

One of the arguments for such a large federal investment in research is that it will lead to new and more effective treatments for diseases — leading to reduced healthcare costs, leading to more disposable income, leading to economic prosperity and the continued unbridled freedom of American citizens to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The pursuit of true happiness can lead people to lifestyles that will not only be satisfying but will be better for the environment, according to an overview of psychological research presented at the American Psychological Association's 122nd Annual Convention.