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Flourishing is about your whole life being good, including the people and places around you. Westend61 via Getty Images

What makes people flourish? A new survey of more than 200,000 people across 22 countries looks for global patterns and local differences

A global study seeks insights into what helps people feel happy, healthy and satisfied – and what holds them back.
Anonymous surveys protect participants from becoming targets of anti-2SLGBTQIA+ hate. However, researchers need to be careful about the potential for bad actors to spoil survey data. (Shutterstock)

AI can affect anonymous surveys. Here are some ways for researchers to mitigate its impact

Online surveys are a great way to gather data, but there is an increasing risk that data collection may be threatened by ‘bad actors’ and artificial intelligence.
Fewer people are affiliated with religion in the United States, but that hardly means that they’re all atheists. Anthony Bradshaw/Photographer's Choice RF via Getty Images

The number of religious ‘nones’ has soared, but not the number of atheists – and as social scientists, we wanted to know why

Social factors, from wealth to politics, may shape whether people who do not believe in God identify as an atheist.
Some Gen Zers and millennials might not identify as readers because they assume the reading that they do doesn’t ‘count.’ Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Gen Zers and millennials are still big fans of books – even if they don’t call themselves ‘readers’

It turns out that identifying as a reader can be more about community, wealth and gender than how much someone actually reads.

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