A conversation with the Happier Lives Institute

Abstract

GiveWell spoke with Dr. Donaldson and Dr. Plant of HLI to learn about HLI’s plans for future research and to discuss GiveWell’s current thinking on subjective well-being. Conversation topics included HLI’s plans for its research agenda going forward, projects that HLI could work on that might be valuable to GiveWell, GiveWell’s goal of incorporating subjective well-being research into its moral weights, philosophical frameworks for quantifying the “badness” of death, data on life satisfaction vs. happiness, and HLI’s evaluation of Strong Minds’ group-format psychotherapy program.