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	Podcast:		WNPR
	Episode:		LISTEN: ‘The Happiness Lab’ Professor On Ways To Be Happier
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:12:21
	Publish Date:		2021-04-29 20:11:22
	Description:		Yale University psychology professor Laurie Santos says happiness is about having joy in your life and with your life. “If we’re maximizing you being happy in your life – that’s lots of positive emotions,” Santos told NEXT . She says you’re happy with your life when you’re satisfied at a meta level. Santos teaches the course “Psychology and the Good Life” at Yale, which is all about happiness. She started it in 2018 after noticing students were more anxious and depressed than ever before. A study from the Journal of Adolescent Health backs that up. It found that rates of depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation increased significantly among U.S. college students from 2007 to 2018. It turns out Yale students wanted to talk about the science of happiness. Over a thousand people signed up for Santos’ class on “the good life” – so many she had to teach it in a concert hall. Since then, she’s taught a similar course online where millions of people have enrolled. She also hosts the podcast
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