Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe – The Conversation

Researchers used a statistical algorithm to analyse written texts between 1820-2009 in four Western countries. sirtravelalot/Shutterstock

October 16, 2019

What makes us happy? We analysed 200 years of written text to find the answer

Thomas Hills, University of Warwick; Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe, Alan Turing Institute; Daniel Sgroi, University of Warwick, and Eugenio Proto, University of Glasgow

Of the countries we looked at, all have seen an increase in subjective happiness since the 1970s.