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Laurie Santos & The Happiness Lab: Exploring The Science Behind Happiness

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan - February 18, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratings
We all want more happiness. But what if our brains lie to us about how to get there? Psychologist Dr. Laurie Santos, whose Yale course “Psychology and the Good Life,”  is the most popular class ever offered in the history of the university, illuminates what science says about what makes us happy...

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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

OPP with Corey Cambridge - December 02, 2019 10:01 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 118 ratings
Our special guest this episode is Yale University Psychology professor  Dr. Laurie Santos, host of the amazing podcast ‘The Happiness Lab’. Based on the psychology course she teaches at Yale, Laurie will take you through the latest scientific research and share some surprising and inspiring stor...

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Ep. 807: Laurie Santos Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following - October 18, 2019 02:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 567 ratings
My guest today is Laurie Santos, a professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University. She is also the Director of Yale’s Comparative Cognition Laboratory, Director of Yale’s Canine Cognition Lab, and the Head of Yale residential college Silliman College. She has been a featured TE...

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Laurie Santos: ON Teaching The Most Popular Class at Yale University

On Purpose with Jay Shetty - October 07, 2019 09:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 23.2K ratings
On this episode of On Purpose, I sat down with Laurie Santos. Laurie is most known for her Yale course “Psychology and the Good Life”.    We discussed how our minds are sucky, and lie to us constantly. Laurie reminds us that external accolades will never bring long-term happiness, and that stro...

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Dr. Laurie Santos, Yale Psychology professor on happiness

Crazy Money with Paul Ollinger - September 25, 2019 03:07 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 427 ratings
Our brains are not good at predicting what will actually make us happy. You think you want more money, more fame, and to be alone, but what will actually make you happy are more social connections and more gratitude. Dr. Santos’ course Psychology and the Good Life teaches students to live happ...

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Laurie Santos - The Real Scoop on How to Be Happier (From the Most Popular Course in Yale History)

Untangle - September 23, 2019 19:52 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 680 ratings
Yale Psychology Professor Laurie Santos taught "Psychology and the Good Life" first in the spring 2018 in response to concerning levels of student depression, anxiety, and stress on campus. It became the most popular class in Yale's history. Next, Coursera offered the course online, calling it "...

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Professor of Happiness: Laurie Santos

That's What She Said with Sarah Spain - September 17, 2019 14:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratings
Sarah talks with Yale professor Dr. Laurie Santos about her work with dogs and monkeys, her wildly popular course on happiness, the G.I. Joe Fallacy and other ways our minds trick us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Professor of Happiness: Laurie Santos

Le Batard & Friends Network - September 17, 2019 14:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratings
Sarah talks with Yale professor Dr. Laurie Santos about her work with dogs and monkeys, her wildly popular course on happiness, the G.I. Joe Fallacy and other ways our minds trick us.

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Amanpour: John Kirby, Vali Nasr, Laurie Santos and Ken Burns

Amanpour - September 16, 2019 19:02 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 475 ratings
John Kirby, the Retired Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy, and Vali Nasr, the Professor of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University, join Christiane Amanpour to discuss the attack on Saudi oil fields. Laurie Santos, the host of "The Happiness Lab" talks about her popular class at Yale Univer...

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Episode 136: The Good Life (with Laurie Santos)

Very Bad Wizards - March 27, 2018 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.4K ratings
From Very Bad Wizards to Megyn Kelly Today back to Very Bad Wizards, Laurie Santos has traveled the typical trajectory of the celebrity academic. Laurie joins us to talk about her cult status after creating the most popular course in Yale University history: Psychology and the Good Life. Why are ...

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You Are Not So Smart - December 03, 2015 02:14 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratings
Our guest in this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast is psychologist Laurie Santos who heads the Comparative Cognition Laboratory at Yale University. In that lab, she and her colleagues are exploring the fact that when two species share a relative on the evolutionary family tree, not on...

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You Are Not So Smart - January 06, 2015 01:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratings
How far back can we trace our irrational behaviors and cognitive biases? Evolutionarily speaking, why do we even do these things? Can we blame our faulty logic on our cultures and institutions, or should we blame it on our biology and our genetic inheritance? Our guest on this episode is psychol...

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Ep. 270: Laurie Santos Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following - September 01, 2014 02:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 567 ratings
My guest today is Laurie Santos, a professor of psychology and cognitive sciences at Yale University. Her research explores the evolutionary origins of the human mind by comparing the cognitive abilities of human and non-human primates. Santos is able to look at monkeys and their behavior in mar...

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Episode 33: Monkeys, Smurfs, and Human Conformity (With Laurie Santos)

Very Bad Wizards - October 14, 2013 16:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.4K ratings
Special guest Laurie Santos (Psychology, Yale) joins us to talk about what animal cognition can tell us about human nature. Why are other primates better at resisting the misleading influence of others than humans? Is conformity a byproduct of our sophisticated cultural learning capacities? Are ...