Redefining the Good Life: a New Focus in the Social Sciences

Psychologists lead movement to shift scholars' attention away from societal ills and toward studying what works

If you've taken a psychology course in the past 25 years, you know these stories: In a famous experiment, subjects obeyed instructions to deliver increasingly painful electric shocks to other people. In a real-life episode, 38 of Kitty Genovese's neighbors in

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