As of 1 June 2024, the Lab is embarking on a new four-year project, entitled “Well-Being in Social Media: Applying Natural Language Processing Analyses to Discover Thriving Online Communities, Promote Healthier Social Media Design and Authentic Happiness.” This project aims to develop a social media design that supports positivity in social media interactions – instead of negativity. We hypothesize that pro-social, positively-charged, highly-engaged interactions in social media increase the Subjective Well-Being (SWB) of individuals in such online communities. See our preliminary works in our pilot studies on Rewiring for Happiness (2021-23)
The participating FIMS Doctoral Students include Sarah Cornwell, Dominique Kelly and Sodiq Onaolapo in Summer 2024, with Alex Mayhew and Nicole Delellis re-joining us in the 2024/2025 academic year.
Going from “I” to “we” may help you get from ill-being to well-being.
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Director of Oxford University’s Wellbeing Research Centre, in his interview about analyzing “The World Happiness Report.” The interview was conducted by Dr. Laurie Santos (Yale University Professor of Psychology and podcast host for The Happiness Lab).