What Elizabeth Dunn has said about Happiness
1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 4, 2026
Elizabeth Dunn, Social psychologist and happiness researcher at the University of British Columbia, co-author of Leave the Lights On, has been quoted on Happiness once in 1 episode of TED Radio Hour, most recently on September 4, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Dunn argues that eating high-carbon foods less often enhances people's ability to savor them, based on her chocolate experiment.
“Having these high-carbon foods we enjoy a little less often can actually enhance our capacity to savor them”
TED Radio Hour: Less guilt, more joy: A new chapter for climate action (Sep 4, 2026) · Listen from 16:49
Episodes
Less guilt, more joy: A new chapter for climate actionTED Radio Hour · Sep 4, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi talks with social psychologist Elizabeth Dunn about climate actions that also increase happiness, featuring co-author Jiaying Zhao's TED Talk.
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