People across cultures hold diverse notions on the ideal type of well-being and on how a societal development may help achieve it. However, empirical studies into these two topics and their interaction are scant. We currently address these research gaps. 

The first wave of the "Live Better" study is over. We collected data from seventy countries. This data helps us create mappings of “ideal types of well-being” and of “folk theories of societal development”. We also investigate psychological processes behind - regulatory focus, values, psychological motives, and cultural models of selfhoods. 

Please feel invited to join us in the second wave of the "Live Better" project. We launched LB2 in September 2024, and there is still time you can join us! We aim to complete data collection within one academic year, i.e., by June 2025. 

Your involvement in our project can range from data collection in your country to all more advanced activities that researchers normally do, e.g., theoretical contributions, data analyses, manuscripts’ writing. Teams from all countries are welcome, but we are particularly interested in collaborations with countries currently underrepresented in psychological science, this is, with teams from Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and non-Confucian Asia. Teams from large multi-cultural countries, like India or Nigeria, are particularly encouraged to join us.

For more, please contact me at kuba@krys.pl

I plan we run data collections every 12-24 months. Please feel invited to join us any moment convenient for you.