George Vaillant Discusses What Makes Us Happy

What Makes Us Happy?

For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in  the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and  grandparenthood, creating the most comprehensive  longitudinal studies in history. Its contents, as much literature as  science, offer profound insight into the human condition—and into the  brilliant, complex mind of the study’s longtime director, George  Vaillant.