Yale’s most popular class ever is available free online — and the topic is how to be happier in your daily life
Monday, March 23, 2020
In the spring of 2018, the Yale psychology professor Laurie Santos unveiled a new course, Psychology and the Good Life. The subject was happiness. It combined positive psychology with the real-life applications of behavioral science. The course was launched in the US — home to supposedly only the 19th-happiest population in the world, according to the 2019 World Happiness Report — at one of the nation’s most elite and high-pressure colleges.
