Wendy Zuckerman

Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman, and you're listening to Science Versus.

Today on the show, we're pitting facts against finding happiness.

That's right.

There's claims out there that all kinds of things can make us happy, from making money, to having kids, to buying your dream home.

But what actually works?

What does it take to have a happy life?

To find out, Harvard has been running this amazing study which has tracked hundreds of people for decades.

It's actually the longest running scientific study into happiness.

And as a result, we now have all of these awesome insights into how we can not only be happier, but healthier too.

And so today on the show, we're chatting with the guy who has been the director of this study for more than two decades.

His name is Professor Bob Waldinger.

He's also a psychiatrist and he co-wrote a book about this study.

Bob is going to tell us what a lot of us get wrong in searching for the good life.

And ultimately, how science can help us all to be happy.

Here's Bob.

Science spills the beans on how to be happy just after the break.

Welcome back.

Today, we're talking about the world's longest-running study into happiness.

It's officially called the Harvard Study of Adult Development.

At the start of the study, pretty much everyone was a white guy.