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115. Life in Three Dimensions: Happiness, Meaning, and Psychological Richness

115. Life in Three Dimensions: Happiness, Meaning, and Psychological Richness

Update: 2025-09-08
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What makes for a good life?

Is it the simple, predictable pleasures we call happiness?

Or can happiness lead to complacency and regret? Is the answer a deep sense of meaning and purpose?

Or can a life of purpose invite narrow or misplaced loyalties?


Shige Oishi is the Marshall Field IV Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


In 2021, he also received the Outstanding Achievement Award for Advancing Cultural Psychology from Society for Personality and Social Psychology.


The Psychological Review paper on a psychologically rich life he co-authored with Erin Westgate received the 2022 Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize. His research has been featured in major media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times.


To learn more, go to:

https://psychology.uchicago.edu/directory/Shigehiro-Oishi


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115. Life in Three Dimensions: Happiness, Meaning, and Psychological Richness

115. Life in Three Dimensions: Happiness, Meaning, and Psychological Richness

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