My Work in the Media
My Published Articles &
Letters (4)
- My op-ed piece, about my
research on aversion to happiness (with Mohsen
Joshanloo) was published by The Dominion Post on
Monday 23 December 2013.
- Published a letter in The
Dominion Post about labour law reform and
happiness in July 2010. Link
- Published a letter in The
Listener about positivity and wellbeing in April
2010 (Volume 223, No. 3647). Link
- Co-wrote the article: Weijers, Linda & Turton, Dan. Would
You Torture for Profit?, Salient, Issue 6 (7
April, 2008): 36. Link
Articles & Programmes
that Feature, Include or Comment on My Work & Ideas
(32)
- My
research (with Mohsen Joshanloo) about where and why
different cultures are averse to happiness was
featured in Scientific American on 28
October 2014. Link
- I was
interviewed by Josie Glausiusz for her article,
Thanks for the Gratitude, in American Scholar,
24 September 2014. Link
- To
mark the United Nations' International
Day of Happiness (20 March), Springer
published a press release on
some of my research with Mohsen Joshanloo (17
March; see it here).
Several other outlets wrote about the article,
including: The New York Daily News (18
March; see it here),
e! Science News (18 March; see it here),
Jagran Post (20 March; see it here),
UPI.com (21 March; see it here),
610KVNU (25 March; link now broken), The
Brock Press (25 March; see it here),
and the New Zealand Herald (26 March; see
it here).
- Interviewed
by Stephanie Pappas for LiveScience.com.
The article was published on 20 March 2014. Link
- Interviewed
by Shabnam Dastgheib for Fairfax Media for her story
for the United
Nations' International
Day of Happiness (20 March). Her article was
published in the Sunday Star Times on 16
March 2014. Link
- Interviewed
by Matt Stewart for The Dominion Post about my
upcoming course on happiness. The article was picked
up by www.stuff.co.nz
and several other news propagators and in The
Marlborough Express, the Waikato Times,
and The Timaru Herald in September 2013. Link
- Interviewed
for Salient about happiness, June 2013,
Vol. 76, Iss. 12. Link
- My
research (with Mohsen Joshanloo) about where and why
different cultures are averse to happiness was
featured on www.diversityissues.co.nz
in May 2013. Link
- Interviewed
for the Victoria University of Wellington news
website about my PhD thesis. The article was picked
up by Ed Blog, Scoop, and MedicalXpress, published
in May 2013. Link
- Interviewed
for an article on hedonism that will appear in WellBeing Magazine's
special issue on happiness, published in May 2012. Link
- Interviewed for an article in the Sunday
Star Times about how the weather affects our
happiness, published January
2012. Link
- Interviewed for
Victorious, the Victoria University of Wellington
alumni magazine, about the International Journal of
Wellbeing, published December 2011. Link
- Interviewed by Jacques
Leslie for a forthcoming Atavist article on Gross National
Happiness and Bhutan in October 2011. Link
- Interviewed by Philip McKibbon from
Bluekeko in
March 2011. Link
- Interviewed
for and quoted in the feature article (about
happiness) of The
Listener in December 2010. Link
- Interviewed for a lead article in
www.stuff.co.nz
on tertiary education policy in July 2010. Link
- My letter to The Listener
(see above) was quoted on Radio New Zealand in
April 2010. Link
- Interviewed for an article in The
Daily News on happiness and the recession in
February 2009. Link
- Interviewed
for
the
Victorian
Theses
feature
of
Salient in
February
2008.
Link
Live Interviews (2)
- Interviewed by Jim Mora on The Panel for
Radio NZ about my fear of happiness research with
Mohsen Joshanloo, 7 February 2014. Listen to the
interview here
(a few minutes in).
- Interviewed
for
the
radio
programme
Vivat
Academia
on
Human FM
about my research, philosophy in general, and how I
got involved in October 2008
Programmes I have hosted
- Co-hosted the philosophical radio
programme The Meaning of Life on Human FM in
February-May 2009
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