{"id":309,"date":"2026-03-12T10:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/cutheme-homepage\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:01:22","slug":"cutheme-homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness Lab &#8211; Carleton University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/happiness-lab-banner-768x336.jpg); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        CU Happiness Laboratory\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"welcome-to-the-happy-lab-page\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Welcome to the &#8216;happy lab&#8217; page!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We study a variety of topics that are all related, in some way, to the psychology of well-being and personality. This includes examining the correlates of happiness, as well as the basic processes (e.g., cognitive, emotional) underlying important individual differences. For example, recent projects include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>examining why people act more or less sociable or extraverted, and the cognitive and emotional consequences of this variation in behaviour.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>examining how being exposed to nature influences goals, cooperation, cognitive performance, and moods.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>examining how individual\u2019s subjective connection with nature, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturerelatedness.ca\/nature-relatedness\">nature relatedness<\/a>, is associated with environmentally responsible behaviour and well-being.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>large scale, international collaborations on well-being, and to help assess and improve the replicability of psychological science.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Click on the links to the left to learn more about us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the &#8216;happy lab&#8217; page! We study a variety of topics that are all related, in some way, to the psychology of well-being and personality. This includes examining the correlates of happiness, as well as the basic processes (e.g., cognitive, emotional) underlying important individual differences. 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