1. Robert Biswas-Diener, who teaches in the psychology department at the University of Oregon, has conducted a number of studies of happiness, including among the Maasai in Kenya and the slum dwellers in Calcutta.
2. Ed Diener, Alumni Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, is past president of the International Society of Quality of Life Studies and of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. He is editor of the “Journal of Happiness Studies.”
3. Maya Tamir is a graduate student in the psychology department at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.