Selected interviews with Ruut Veenhoven In English

1998 International Test Commission Bulletin, vol. 8, nr.1, pp 1-10
Assessing quality-of-life: an interview with four scholars
2001 Eloquent, vol. 7, nr. 3, pp 24-28
Happiness and the bonus of freedom
2005 The Independent Review, pp 2-3, January 3
Dr Feelgood
2005 Happy ever after ...
Herald Sun: Sunday Style Magazine, p 22
2006 1585: Business Journal German Exchange, April 2006, Special on happiness, pp 15-17
Can happiness be measured?
2008 Holland Herald, vol. 43, nr. 1, January 2008, pp16-20
Measuring happiness
2008 Holland QualiTime, nr. 11, 2008, pp 60-64
The luck to live a happy life
2008 Eric Weiner, 'The Geography of Happiness', pp 5-25
Happiness is a number
2011 Sloggi
Happiness lies in small things
2013 Pascale Harter, BBC News Magazine, 1 July 2013
Can we make ourselves happier?
2014

Jet Gispen and Nienke van der Straten, TTP: Turn The Page, vol. 15, nr. 50, pp 17-19, Study Association Industrial Design, Delft Technical University
Design for happiness

2018 Happiness on the agenda at World Government Summit in Dubai
Gulf News, February 10, 2018
2018 Cheerful discontent: Perspectives on Happiness
Optentia Research Program, North-West University, South Africa
2018 Don't study, don't worry, be happy?
Interview with Michael Sommer in ELM (e)magazine, 19 December 2018
2019 Niksen is the Dutch Lifestyle Concept of Doing Nothing
Interview with Sophia Gottfried in Time Magazine, July 12, 2019
2023 9 Happiness Myth and Tenets, Prof Ruut Veenhoven. Podcast 30 in The Mental Wellbeing Show. Also on YouTube.
2023 Ruut Veenhoven interviewed by Paul Frijters
McGill-UofT Wellbeing seminarhttps://wellbeing.research.mcgill.ca/index.php?m=chern, December 22

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