Happiness and Well-Being Lab

About the Lab

What can people do to improve their happiness and well-being? Which strategies and mindsets regarding improving happiness work and which do not? What role does culture play in people’s happiness? How do happy people interact with the places and spaces that they occupy?


We are a research laboratory that studies happiness and well-being based in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington (previously based at Elon University), and these are just some of the questions that we study. We are investigating how people can improve their happiness and what personality and cultural aspects affect people’s well-being levels.