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#196 — The Science of Happiness

2020-04-10 · 60 min · 10 entities

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    The Science of Happiness
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    #196 — The Science of Happiness
  • discusses Society & Culture concept
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    evidence rules-v4
    Feed category: Society & Culture
  • discusses Science concept
    0.40
    evidence rules-v4
    Feed category: Science

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Episode description as stored
Sam Harris speaks with Laurie Santos about the scientific study of happiness. They discuss people's expectations about happiness, the experiencing self vs the remembered self, framing effects, the importance of social connections, the effect of focusing on the happiness of others, introversion and extroversion, the influence of technology on social life, our relationship to time, the connection between happiness and ethics, hedonic adaptation, the power of mindfulness, resilience, the often illusory significance of reaching goals, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe.