The fourth annual “New Directions in Research on the Psychology of Technology” conference was held at the UVA Darden Sands Family Grounds outside Washington, D.C. on November 8-9, and was co-sponsored by the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and the Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Organized by Kushlev, K., Raveendhran, R., Behrend, T.

A Wealth Tax Could Deliver a Happiness Dividend by Stephen Mihm mentioned Dr. Kushlev’s work to reserach if “Americans feel happier – and experience a greater sense of fairness – under more progressive taxation?”

On October 26th Dr. Kushlev presented Smartphones Impose Subtle Costs On Well-Being (But They Also Make Our Lives Easier) at the Big Questions Conference of Happiness and Suffering at Singapore Management University, Singapore.

On October 9, 2019 Dr. Kushlev presented Is Your Smartphone Making You Unhappy? Not Exactly at the American Psychological Association’s Innovation in Washington, DC.

In the APS Observer, Nathan DeWall provides a useful classroom activity to help students become aware of their smartphone use based on Dr. Kushlev’s latest research.

Read the full article by Nathan DeWall here!