happyologist

Noun

happyologist (plural happyologists)

1. A social scientist who studies happiness.
   • Even Pollster Louis Harris turns up as an unlikely temporary happyologist, reporting for this month's Playboy that while 49% of American men rank sexual satisfaction as "very important" to happiness, 84% give that same crucial weight to family life.1979, Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce, Time - Volume 113
   • In an attempt to determine who is happy and why, these “happyologists” have randomly surveyed people and asked them to report their level of happiness or unhappiness and how satisfied they are with life.2006, Lindsey O'Connor, If Mama Ain't Happy, Ain't Nobody Happy!, →ISBN, page 41
2. One who helps people become happier.
   • The feel-good trade's blizzard of lighter-than-air tracts proves nothing whatever about happiness except that a lot of people are willing to pay for help in pursuing it. The new happyologists are doing a bit better than that, though their young science is now approximately where navigation was...1981, Betty Renshaw, Anne Mills King, Values and voices: a college reader Values and voices: a college reader, →ISBN, page 350
   • The book helps readers become their own happyologist.2014, Jackie Ruka, Get Happy and Create a Kick-Butt Life, →ISBN