The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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BONUS: A Happier Christmas

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Accept our gift of happiness this holiday season! It can be a hectic and stressful time of year... but it’s also full of opportunities to feel happier.

Dr. Laurie Santos brings you science-based tips so you can have yourself a merry little Christmas.

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Season 310/11/2021
Laurie Gets a Fun-tervention (Part Two: Beach Party)
Dr. Laurie Santos doesn’t have so much fun these days - which is really bad for her health and wellbeing. So Catherine Price (author of "The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again") is staging an emergency fun-tervention which will take Laurie to the beach and totally out of her comfort zone.
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Season 309/27/2021
Laurie Gets a Fun-tervention (Part One)
Research suggests that goofing off and enjoying yourself is vitally important to your health, productivity and wellbeing. So Laurie asks Catherine Price to come to her rescue and stage an emergency fun-tervention.
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Season 309/22/2021
BONUS: How to Handle Change
Change is the only certainty in life. We may desperately want to change ourselves and our surroundings, or we may fear the disruption and distress some changes bring. Dr. Laurie Santos talks to change expert Dr. Maya Shankar about how we can put change in perspective.
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Season 309/20/2021
The Kindness of Strangers
Dr. Laurie Santos reveals that the "bystander effect" is wrong. People do like helping out, and we get a happiness boost from being kind. So how do we encourage more bystanders to intervene?
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Season 309/13/2021
You Can’t Always Want What You Like
Dr. Laurie Santos explores why our brains don’t encourage us to do things that we know we’ll enjoy, and presents some strategies to help us do more of the activities that will result in happier and healthier lives.
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