Dr. Laurie Santos

Welcome to the official YouTube channel of Dr. Laurie Santos!

Laurie is Professor of Psychology and Head of Silliman College at Yale University and host of The Happiness Lab podcast. She’s an expert on human cognition and the cognitive biases that impede better choices. Her course, Psychology and the Good Life, became Yale’s most popular course in over 300 years, with almost one of our four students at Yale enrolled. Her course has been featured in numerous news outlets including the New York Times, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, GQ Magazine, Slate and O! Magazine.

A winner of numerous awards both for her science and teaching, she was recently voted as one of Popular Science Magazine’s “Brilliant 10” young minds, and was named in Time Magazine as a “Leading Campus Celebrity.” Her podcast, The Happiness Lab, is a top 10 Apple Podcast and has had over 20 million downloads.

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