Charlie Harrison (Oxford) shared findings on apparent changes to humanity’s scale of wellbeing at the latest of the Wellbeing Research Centre’s Seminar Series.
Together with co-author Dr Alberto Prati (UCL), he proposes a new linear reporting function – the V-LINE – to account for the volatility in happiness over time, and to enable greater comparability between historic and contemporary wellbeing data.
Watch the full presentation on the Centre’s YouTube channel.
Charlie Harrison is a Research Assistant at the Wellbeing Research Centre. Charlie recently completed his Undergraduate studies in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at University College London, and is also a Research Fellow at the Stone Centre for Economic Inequality. His research interests include the measurement of wellbeing, the relationship between income and happiness, and the Easterlin Paradox. His ongoing research explores ways of calibrating wellbeing scales using objective indicators of happiness, including life events.
