Eudemonology (HAPPINESS) with Laurie Santos

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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HAPPINESS RESEARCH, straight up. What is happiness? How do our circumstances affect happiness? Why is the word “gratitude” kinda cringey? What can we do to feel better? Should we feel guilty for feeling happy? When is positivity “toxic?” Yale cognitive scientist, Eudemonologist, and host of The Happiness Lab podcast Dr. Laurie Santos chats about how scientists measure human happiness and what their research has shown helps achieve it, even during the worst of times. Also: silver medal face & countering counterfactuals, which will make sense when you listen. Follow Dr. Lauri Santos https://instagram.com/lauriesantosofficial Her podcast: https://www.happinesslab.fm Donations went to DonorsChoose.org More links and info at alieward.com/ologies/eudemonology Sponsors of Ologies: alieward.com/ologies-sponsors Transcripts & bleeped episodes at: alieward.com/ologies-extras Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes and now… MASKS. Hi. Yes. Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies Follow twitter.com/AlieWard or instagram.com/AlieWard Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris Transcripts by Emily White of www.thewordary.com/ Website by https://www.kellyrdwyer.com/ Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's that guy who saw you see him bump his head and then you smile at each other
0:05.2	like, that's okay.
0:06.7	Allie Ward back with an episode of Oligis, it's going to fix your whole life, just kidding.
0:10.8	Actually, maybe not.
0:11.8	It very well might fix your life.
0:13.2	I love the life fixer episodes and thisologist is someone I've had in my sights for a few
0:18.0	years.
0:19.0	We mentioned her work in the awesome Oligi episode with Neil Pezrecha and instead of just
0:24.3	citing her, we're essentially interrogating her now to shake her for brain science.
0:30.0	So she got her bachelor's in psychology and her master's and PhD in cognition and brain
0:36.2	behavior from Harvard University and is now a cognitive scientist and a psychology professor
0:42.5	at Yale where she has taught the course psychology and the good life.
0:46.6	Oh, she's been a TED speaker.
0:48.5	She was named one of Time Magazine's leading campus celebrities and she hosts a podcast
0:53.2	called The Happiness Lab.
0:55.1	So it's been a wonky few years, we all know.
0:58.5	And as one person who wrote a review this week of Oligis said, it always brings a smile
1:02.8	to my face when I hear people talk about their passions.
1:05.4	I'm grateful every day for Oligis and giving me my life back.
1:08.5	AJ Bucksdon, who left that review.
1:10.5	I'm very glad you're here.
1:12.0	Thank you for leaving that fresh one.
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