Providing the secret to happier and more motivated students is the mission of Dr. Laurie Santos, Professor at Yale University, who created “Psychology and the Good Life”, based on the science of happiness, and the most popular course in the history of the school.
Dr. Santos will present a set of practical, scientifically-validated techniquesfor living a more satisfying life. She will introduce some misconceptions we may have about what makes for a satisfying life and explain how our minds lie to us about what will make us happy. Dr. Santos will suggest biases that make it hard for us to see what makes us happy and cause us to seek out the wrong sorts of things. Participants will discover the relevant, simple, best practices to improved mental wellbeing, and what we should really strive for to live a happier, more fulfilling life.
Dr. Laurie Santos is an expert on human cognition, with a focus on accomplishing behavioral change through positive psychology. She has been featured in numerous news outlets including the New York Times, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, NPR, GQ Magazine, Slate, CNN and O, The Oprah Magazine. Dr. Santos has won numerous awards both for her science and teaching and she has been featured as one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10” young minds and was named TIME’s “Leading Campus Celebrity”. Her podcast, The Happiness Lab, launched in 2019 has over 35 million downloads.
