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Back|Happiness researcher Laurie Santos: Why money and success don't make you happy
Happiness researcher Laurie Santos: Why money and success don't make you happy
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Die Zeit·21 hours ago·Science·1 min read·🇩🇪Germany·

Happiness researcher Laurie Santos: Why money and success don't make you happy

Psychologist Laurie Santos teaches the most popular seminar in Yale University history. In the interview she explains why our minds deceive us when looking for happiness.

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Psychologist Laurie Santos from Yale University researches why external factors such as money and body ideals do not lead to long-term happiness and why our minds deceive us.

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Laurie Santos teaches an extremely popular seminar on the good life and happiness at Yale University.

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Psychologist Laurie Santos teaches happiness at Yale University. One of her courses – on the good life – is considered the most popular seminar in the history of the university. She uses studies to show why neither money nor a good figure can make you happy in the long term. And why our minds still let us believe this.

DIE ZEIT: A high salary, a slim body, a larger apartment - many people think that these are the things that make you happy. They, on the other hand, say they don't do that at all, at least not for long. How can you be so sure?

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  • ?Instead, according to Santos, what makes you happy in the long term?

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Psychologist Laurie Santos from Yale University researches why external factors such as money and body ideals do not lead to long-term happiness and why our minds deceive us.

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