Aspen Ideas Festival: The four sources of happiness

Jennifer Senior
Jennifer Senior, author of "All Work, No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood," spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado on July 3, 2015.
Ricky Savi | Aspen Ideas Festival

What's included in the Declaration of Independence? Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Americans aren't promised happiness, just the pursuit of it. At the 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival, several psychologists suggest that our old notions of happiness aren't true today. Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert moderates a discussion with psychologists Paul Bloom, Eli Finkle and Tim Kasser, and journalist Jennifer Senior.

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