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UCLA RADIATION ONCOLOGY JOURNAL
DR. LAURIE SANTOS
UCLA Radiation Oncology's Dr. Ann Raldow and Kathleen
Mier, LCSW recently caught up with Dr. Laurie Santos to talk
happiness and how to cultivate more of it in 2024.
Dr. Laurie Santos is an expert on human cognition and the cognitive biases
that impede better choices. Her course, “Psychology and the Good Life,”
teaches students what the science of psychology says about how to make
wiser choices and live a life that’s happier and more fulfilling. The class is
Yale’s most popular course in over 300 years and has been adapted into a free
Coursera program that has been taken by over 3.3 million people to date.
Dr. Santos has been featured in numerous news outlets including the The
New York Times, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, CBS This Morning,
NPR, GQ Magazine, Slate, CNN and O, The Oprah Magazine.
Dr. Santos is a winner of numerous awards both for her science and teaching
from institutions such as Yale and the American Psychological Association.
She has been featured as one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10” young minds
and was named TIME Magazine's “Leading Campus Celebrity.”
Dr. Laurie Santos is also the podcast host for The Happiness Lab, which
launched in 2019 and has over 100 million downloads.
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