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“If anything, natural selection kind of doesn’t really care about our happiness that much. I mean, natural selection’s job is just to keep us alive and keep us around to reproduce. And I think it does ...

Laurie Santos first noticed something amiss with parents a few years ago. “I saw how anxious and worried parents were when connecting with their kids at Yale,” said Santos, the Chandrika and Ranjan ...

What does it mean to be happy? Not just satisfied or content or joyful — but to be truly, blissfully happy? Sometimes, happiness feels as elusive as a magic lamp, especially when we’re in the midst of ...

Most people struggle to predict what makes them happy, says Harvard University-trained happiness expert Laurie Santos. You might think a promotion or higher paying job will bring you joy and ...

The day I spoke with happiness expert Laurie Santos, PhD, she could hardly contain her excitement sharing Jan-Emmanuel De Neve’s workplace happiness study. In partnership with Indeed, his team at ...

Yale’s Laurie Santos, a psychologist who explores the science of well-being in her popular podcast The Happiness Lab, is teaming up with a group of familiar characters who have brought joy to ...

Have you ever wondered: What does it mean to be truly happy? Can our brain chemistry, or even our genetics, determine how we feel about our lives? And, most importantly, can we learn to be even ...