happyologists

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
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