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Media Exposure and Happiness

Apr 24, 2019

For decades, social scientists and pundits have worried about the potentially negative effects of exposure to media content. At the same time, we also are learning more about what makes us happy. How can media content have positive effects on outlook and wellbeing? On this episode, we talk with Sophie Janicke-Bowles of Chapman University.