Lara Aknin | |
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 Lara Aknin in 2014 | |
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| Education | BA., MA., PhD, University of British Columbia |
| Thesis | From wealth to well-being: spending money on others promotes happiness. (2008) |
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| Institutions | Simon Fraser University |
Lara Beth Aknin is a Canadian professor of social psychology at Simon Fraser University,and associate editor of the World Happiness Report. [1]
After earning her PhD from the University of British Columbia,Aknin joined the faculty of psychology at Simon Fraser University in 2012. [2] That year,she published "Giving Leads to Happiness in Young Children" with J. Kiley Hamlin and Elizabeth Dunn,which supported the idea that humans may have evolved to find giving rewarding. [3]
In 2014,Aknin,Michael Norton and Elizabeth Dunn co-published a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and CIHR funded review of whether spending money had a positive effect on people's happiness. [4] The following year,her contributions to the field of social psychology earned her the President’s New Researcher Award from the Canadian Psychological Association [5] and a fellowship at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. [2] By 2019,she received a SSHRC grant for her project,“Can Repeated and Reflective Giving Nurture Canada's Next Generation of Philanthropists?” [6] She was also honoured by the university for her research and contributions to social Psychology with the title "Distinguished SFU Professor." [7]
During the COVID-19 pandemic,she served as chair of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Task Force of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission. [8]
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