Welcome! I’m delighted to share this resource with you. For many years, I’ve devoted myself to the large-scale, scientific study of human happiness. Now, I’ve decided to share the latest research findings here, in an accessible online format. I hope you find it interesting.
About Dr. Killingsworth
Dr. Matt Killingsworth studies the nature and causes of human happiness. He is the founder and director of trackyourhappiness.org, a large-scale project that uses smartphones to measure real-time happiness in people around the world. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Matt’s research investigates how people’s circumstances, behavior, and other factors contribute to and detract from their happiness, as well as issues related to the measurement and conceptualization of happiness itself. He holds degrees in Engineering and in Economics from Duke University and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University. His research has been published in journals such as Science, Psychological Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and covered widely in the media.