[1]This episode we talk about a recent paper about happiness [2] (via Graphic Sociology [3]) and whether or not happiness studies actually tell us anything about happiness. After that, we follow-up on an argument Chris made last episode about “being cool” as a cause of human social behavior.

The sound is a little rough this week as three out of the four of us were actually in the same room for a change, which is actually harder to record than four people in four different cities using Skype.

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[1] https://thesocietypages.org/improv/files/2011/06/album-art-ep27.png

[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2011.00389.x/pdf

[3] https://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/2011/05/17/are-people-who-have-kids-happier-not-really/

[4] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/socimprov27.mp3