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What makes people happy? It’s a difficult question to answer, but new research could go some way to help explain the secret to life satisfaction — and it seems a lot of it is down to religion. Kayonda Hubert Ngamaba explains how his new study shows that happiness levels vary across different religious groups, with Protestants, Buddhists and Roman Catholics seeming to be happier and more satisfied with their lives, compared to people practicing other religions or those with no faith.
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Happiness and life satisfaction levels vary across different religious groups.
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Kayonda Hubert Ngamaba, University of York
Considering factors that contribute to happiness and life satisfaction.
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Arts + Culture
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Jack Anderson, University of Melbourne
Athletes have, on occasion, mounted successful defences of sabotage in doping cases.
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Caillan Davenport, Macquarie University; Shushma Malik, University of Roehampton
The idea that the athletic contests – held in honour of the Greek god Zeus for over a thousand years – were shut down by a puritanical Christian emperor makes for a good story. But is it true?
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Environment + Energy
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George Ferns, Cardiff University
Oil companies are pushing the world to believe they are the solution to, not the cause of, climate change.
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Politics + Society
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Mohamed M Diatta, Sciences Po – USPC
No one is immune to change in leadership that has led many African presidents to lose their coveted top job.
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Chandrima Chakraborty, McMaster University
When preparing for a course, a McMaster University professor found an alarming lack of knowledge among Canadians about the Air India bombing of 1985. Why the startling indifference from Canadians?
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Jessica Walton, Deakin University
The 1988 Seoul Olympics shed light on South Korea's institutionalised practice of international adoption.
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