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Measuring Progress: STATEC Well-being Seminar Series
17:00 CET (11:00 AM Eastern) – 18:00 CET (12:00 PM Eastern)
8 November 2022
Why governments should measure physical pain
Dr. Lucía Macchia, City, University of London
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Abstract: Traditionally, the Gross Domestic Product has been considered the key indicator of societal progress and wellbeing. Due to the limitations of the standard statistics, governments started to use measures of psychological wellbeing (e.g., happiness, life satisfaction) to evaluate citizens’ welfare. More recently, scholars across the social sciences suggested that alternative approaches to measuring wellbeing should be taken into account. This work argues that governments should consider physical pain when assessing societal wellbeing. This talk will analyse physical pain as a socioeconomic, psychosocial, and behavioural phenomenon and discuss why pain should be used to complement the existing measures of societal wellbeing. Policy implications of physical pain will also be discussed.
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Dr. Lucía Macchia is a behavioural scientist with an interdisciplinary background whose work focuses on human happiness, physical pain, and behaviour. Integrating methods from psychology and behavioural economics, she explores how psychosocial and socioeconomic factors shape mental and physical wellbeing. She is currently a Lecturer at the School of Health and Psychological Sciences at City, University of London.
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