Yale professor Dr Laurie Santos takes us through the latest scientific research on happiness: The Happiness Lab

The Happiness Lab, by Pushkin Industries.

Dr. Laurie Santos is one of the founders of the Gi Joe Fallacy, and also the professor at Yale with the most popular class. Now she has a fabulous new podcast, The Happiness Lab, and Season One is underway.

You can listen to Santos talk about the effectiveness of self-report in measuring happiness, the way our happiness is both shaped by our genetic inheritance and changeable, and so much more.

Santos’s course is offered for free on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being

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I’m a huge fan of any podcast that links to the references!

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