Sonja Lyubomirsky Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. She has been conducting research on happiness for 28 years and has been awarded numerous grants including $1 million from the National Institute of Mental Health to conduct research on the possibility of permanently increasing happiness. She is the best selling author of the books ‘The How of Happiness’ and ‘The Myths of Happiness’. Her research has been written up in hundreds of magazines and newspapers and she has appeared in multiple TV shows and feature documentaries. Her work has focused primarily on 3 critical questions: 1) What makes people happy? 2) Is happiness a good thing? and 3) How can we make people happier still?