Chatbots, MDMA, and Finding Love in the Digital Era

About this episode

Sonja Lyubomirsky discusses the challenges of finding happiness and forming relationships in the digital age.

Sonja Lyubomirsky, happiness researcher and author of How to Feel Loved , joins Offline to explain the secret to living a contented life—and why the internet makes it so damn hard. If everyone we love and seek to impress is reachable at all times…why are Americans getting less happy, year after year? Sonja and Jon chat about how social media curation may be seeping offline, the ways our digital lives have affected our ability to form strong relationships, and whether AI could actually help bring under-socialized, under-romanced teens out of their shells. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here . For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast, episode title, and episode date.

People in this episode

Host: Jon Favreau

Guest: Sonja Lyubomirsky

Topics covered

• happiness
• digital relationships
• social media
• AI
• contentment
• mental health

Keywords

• happiness
• social media
• relationships
• AI
• contentment
• digital era
• mental health

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: How to Feel Loved

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