Santos is interested in interventions which boost both aspects of happiness.
Conversely, Santos joked that a businessperson might be happy living in their comfortable life, but they might be at a loss when finding greater meaning. Santos explained how these two parts can conflict with each other: a parent with a newborn baby might be fulfilled and happy with their life, but their restless nights might make them unhappy in their life. Santos outlined her definition of happiness, one informed by the social sciences: what makes one happy in their life and happy with their life.
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Because Santos did not want her ideas to be limited to the thirty-some-odd people in the classroom, she started The Happiness Labpodcast and offers an adapted version of the course for free online, which more than 4 million people have taken. Santos then developed the most popular class in Yale’s history, "Psychology and the Good Life," which sought to determine-through behavioral science-what makes us happy. How could these students be expected to complete their schoolwork if they were facing such psychological and emotional struggles? Working with students as the head of Silliman College at Yale, Santos discovered a concerning number of students were struggling with depression, reflecting a broader cultural trend. Her research pivoted when she witnessed the mental health crisis happening on college campuses. While Santos used to work in labs studying primate brains, she was always interested in the quirks of the human brain. Santos began her career as a cognitive biologist before shifting to psychology. This hybrid event was held in-person at the Rubenstein Forum and streamed via Zoom. On October 26, 2022, Professor Laurie Santos of Yale University sat down with Chicago Booth’s Professor Nicholas Epley for "What Behavioral Science Can Teach Us about Happiness," part of the Think Better speaker series.
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