At Yale, You Can Take a Course on Happiness

Chill out...

Yale psychology professor Laurie Santos teaches

"Psychology and the Good Life."

When Laurie Santos was growing up in New Bedford, her mother was a high school guidance counselor, which meant Santos got lots of good advice about school as well as life, Bill Baker reports on bostonglobe.com.

Years later, when Santos became a psychology professor at Yale University, she noticed that her students seemed to be neglecting the latter, Baker wrote.

I wanted to yell at them: "God, chill out!" she said.

Instead, she created a class for them, one that is now the most popular in the history of the 317-year-old Ivy League school, Baker noted.

For more of a fascinating report about Santos' popular course:https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/04/25/the-college-course-overachievers-flock-happiness/BxySv7ak9AnrsnOecbVR0N/amp.html

Photo: Boston Globe.

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