Psychologist Laurie Santos, PhD, is the Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology and Head of Silliman College at Yale University. She is an expert on human cognition, its origins and the evolutionary biases that influence our all-too-imperfect life choices. Her course, “Psychology and the Good Life,” teaches students what the science of positive psychology says about behavior change, 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 The New York Times, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, NPR, GQ Magazine, Slate, CNN and O, The Oprah Magazine. She has been selected as one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10” young minds and was named TIME’s “Leading Campus Celebrity.” Her podcast, “The Happiness Lab,” launched in 2019, has over 35 million downloads.