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Laurie Santos

Professor of Psychology
Yale University

Laurie is Professor of Psychology at Yale University and host of The Happiness Lab podcast. Laurie is an expert on the science of happiness and the ways in which our minds lie to us about what makes us happy. Her course, Psychology and the Good Life, is Yale’s most popular course in over 300 years. Her podcast, The Happiness Lab, has over 100 million downloads.

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