Peter Gamma (Physiologist & Director) Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS)

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Is the project «happiness can be trained» given up by scientists which are publicly funded & is now mainly interesting for business scientists?

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Last Updated on May 3, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

20 years ago Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist monk with a PhD. in Cellular Genetics sold us the slogan «happiness can be trained» on YouTube:

He reviewed this PNAS paper from 2004:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101

But what happened after these revolutionary findings from the year 2004? What happened was «Altered Traits» in the year 2017»

But is Altered Traits not mainly interesting for book sellers and business scientists? Let’s go to the scientific literature which we can find here to find out about it:

https://infozentrum.ethz.ch/en