New master’s program on happiness teaches students to 'look inside'
A smiley face balloon floats over Revere Beach in Revere, Mass. (Michael Dwyer/AP)
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During times of financial stress, political division and even war, what is the relevance of happiness? Psychology professor Tal Ben-Shahar is helping students search for an answer.
His field has been developing for years now, but in the fall of 2022, Ben-Shahar launched what he believes to be the world’s first master’s degree program in happiness at Centenary University in New Jersey. The program’s third cohort started studying this spring.
He joins Here & Now’s Deepa Fernandes.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
