DALLAS — What is happiness? According to Laurie R. Santos, MA, PhD, social scientists define it as “the idea that you want to be happy both in your life and with your life.”
“This is what subjective well-being researchers call the cognitive part of well-being and the affective part of our well-being,” Santos, the Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology at Yale University and host of The Happiness Lab podcast, said during her talk at the Lifestyle Medicine Conference.
The affective aspect of well-being refers to the ratio of positive to negative emotions, while the cognitive aspect