happyologist

plural happyologists

1. A social scientist who studies happiness.

   Here, you possibly find the so-called “flow-effect”: the ability to capture and achieve a state of happiness (according to happyologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi [pronounced: Tschik-zent-mihai]).

   2016, Horst Hanisch, Discussion - Mastering the Skills of Moderation, →ISBN, page 16

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   Even Pollster Louis Harris turns up as an unlikely temporary happyologist, reporting for this month's Playboy that while 49% of American men rank sexual satisfaction as "very important" to happiness, 84% give that same crucial weight to family life.

   1979, Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce, Time - Volume 113

   In an attempt to determine who is happy and why, these “happyologists” have randomly surveyed people and asked them to report their level of happiness or unhappiness and how satisfied they are with life.

   2006, Lindsey O'Connor, If Mama Ain't Happy, Ain't Nobody Happy!, →ISBN, page 41

   Speculating about American exceptionalism is an endlessly fascinating pastime, but whatever the reason, happyologists agree that the United States is an outlier from the global trend in subjective wellbeing.

   2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, page 426

2. One who helps people become happier.

   The book helps readers become their own happyologist.

   2014, Jackie Ruka, Get Happy and Create a Kick-Butt Life, →ISBN

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   The feel-good trade's blizzard of lighter-than-air tracts proves nothing whatever about happiness except that a lot of people are willing to pay for help in pursuing it. The new happyologists are doing a bit better than that, though their young science is now approximately where navigation was before the invention of the compass.

   1981, Betty Renshaw, Anne Mills King, Values and voices: a college reader Values and voices: a college reader, →ISBN, page 350