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2026
Why Algorithms Can’t Predict Your Love Life with Dr. Paul Eastwick
Feb 23
41m 11s
15 insights
How to Find "The One": The Science of Dating with Tim Molnar
Feb 16
45m 1s
24 insights
How to Feel Truly Loved (with Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky and Dr. Harry Reis)
Feb 9
42m 9s
15 insights
How to Design a More Meaningful Life (with Dave Evans and Bill Burnett)
Feb 2
46m 30s
30 insights
The Surprising Science of Creativity (with Dr. George Newman)
Jan 26
30m 34s
19 insights
Why Chasing Success Can Leave You Feeling Stuck (with David Brooks)
Jan 19
36m 48s
34 insights
How to Bounce Back from Life’s Curveballs (with Dr. Maya Shankar)
Jan 12
39m 32s
17 insights
Stop Wasting Your Energy — Here’s What to Do Instead (with Dr. Diana Hill)
Jan 5
46m 58s
17 insights
2025
Holiday Survival Guide II: Perfect Gifts and Fighting Fatigue (with Rainn Wilson)
Dec 15
31m 14s
26 insights
Holiday Survival Guide I: Ending Family Arguments (with Rainn Wilson)
Dec 8
48m 15s
31 insights
How to Experience the Joy of Giving Right Now
Dec 2
47m 42s
23 insights
Why Being Grateful Makes Us Feel Great (A Thanksgiving Re-run)
Nov 24
27m 17s
4 insights
Reset Your Relationship with Stress (for National Stress Awareness Day)
Nov 5
43m 27s
26 insights
How Horror Movies and True Crime Can Make You Happier
Oct 27
44m 57s
10 insights
Make Vulnerability Your Superpower (with NBA star Kevin Love)
Oct 20
37m 7s
16 insights
How to Make Better Choices (with Barry Schwartz)
Oct 6
40m 48s
11 insights
Take a Three-Day Weekend Without Losing Any Pay (with Juliet Schor)
Sep 29
55m 51s
15 insights
How to Spend Your Time and Money Better (with Nobel Prize Winner Richard Thaler)
Sep 22
48m 48s
18 insights
Eat Like the People Who Live Happily to 100 (with Dan Buettner)
Sep 15
39m 21s
13 insights
Why Having the Courage to Defy Makes us Happier (with Dr Sunita Sah)
Sep 8
39m 53s
10 insights
Stop Caring What Other People Think of You (Bruce Hood on 10% Happier with Dan Harris)
Aug 25
1h 8m
28 insights
“Can You Train Your Mind to Be Happier?” (with Dr Tal Ben-Shahar)
Aug 18
1h 27m
34 insights
"Human Minds Are Stupid!" (with Rich Roll)
Aug 11
2h 22m
44 insights
The Joy of Not Being Dead (with Ryan Holiday on The Daily Stoic)
Aug 4
1h 7m
17 insights
Anyone Can Play, Anyone Can Win (Cornholing with Michelle Hastie Thompson)
Jul 14
32m 59s
21 insights
The Jimi Hendrix of the Cello (with Joshua Roman)
Jul 7
39m 7s
14 insights
"Birds Are Like My Afternoon Martini" (Birding with Lili Taylor)
Jun 30
32m 15s
34 insights
How Good Manners Made Me Happier (with Etiquette Expert William Hanson)
Jun 23
41m 38s
29 insights
How Dogs Changed my Life (with The Dogist)
Jun 16
35m 29s
21 insights
The Two Words That Saved Mel Robbins (From A Slight Change of Plans)
Jun 6
37m 30s
10 insights
How Smartphones Changed Childhood (And What to do About it)
Jun 2
39m 52s
17 insights
How to Think Like a Child (with David Yeager)
May 26
35m 6s
19 insights
How to Tackle Bad Behaviour (with Dr Becky Kennedy)
May 19
45m 35s
20 insights
Is a "Viking" Childhood a Happier Childhood (with Helen Russell)?
May 12
38m 56s
28 insights
How Not to Repeat Your Parents' Mistakes (with Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach)
May 5
37m 53s
15 insights
Reducing the Stress of Parenting with Dr Vivek Murthy
May 1
34m 38s
16 insights
How to Build Resilience (with Ben Walter from The Unshakeables)
Apr 29
35m 23s
18 insights
Can You Become a "Practical" Optimist?
Apr 21
45m 4s
24 insights
How to Confront the Things that Suck (Live with John Green)
Apr 18
1h 11m
20 insights
How to be Awesome - With Almost no Effort (with John Green)
Apr 14
31m 2s
16 insights
How to Stay Hopeful (Live from SXSW with Michelle Obama)
Apr 11
58m 25s
16 insights
Why You Should Take a Few Months Off Work (Live from SXSW)
Apr 7
47m 39s
19 insights
Friendships: Handling Change, Conflict and Finding New Friends
Apr 4
37m
15 insights
Twelve Sayings That Could Change Your Life
Mar 31
31m 47s
25 insights
Have You Got Trust Issues?
Mar 24
42m 2s
19 insights
Why Eating Alone is so Bad for You (An International Day of Happiness Special).
Mar 20
36m 41s
21 insights
Why We're Better With Some Threats Than Others (An Earth Month Re-Run)
Mar 17
34m 40s
10 insights
Harnessing People Around us to Feel Happier (Live with Ethan Kross)
Mar 10
49m 27s
21 insights
How to Find Your Purpose
Mar 3
42m 59s
17 insights
How to Inspire the People Around You
Feb 24
51m 6s
25 insights
How to Lead the Richest Life Possible
Feb 17
38m 3s
18 insights
Dr Laurie Talks Romance, Parents and Stalking on 'Love Factually'
Feb 14
1h
18 insights
How to Learn from a Rom Com Movie
Feb 10
45m 28s
13 insights
Date Like a Scientist
Feb 3
47m 3s
25 insights
Stop Stressing About Stress
Jan 27
43m 31s
26 insights
Hack Your Emotions
Jan 20
46m 55s
6 insights
Get Over Yourself
Jan 13
43m 6s
14 insights
Feel Like You're Enough
Jan 6
44m 43s
15 insights
How To Embrace Imperfection
Jan 1
43m 39s
19 insights
2024
Finding Holiday Happiness (Dr Laurie on the How God Works podcast)
Dec 16
38m 31s
19 insights
Why Giving is a Great Daily Habit
Dec 3
42m 45s
18 insights
Get Happier, Help Others: Some Good Ideas About Giving
Dec 2
51m 9s
15 insights
Top 5: How to Act Like an Extrovert
Nov 25
30m 46s
12 insights
Top 5: Throw Yourself into Fandom
Nov 22
32m 57s
9 insights
Top 5: Love the Past, But Don't Live There
Nov 18
35m 21s
9 insights
Top 5: Finding Joy in Any Job
Nov 15
35m 18s
12 insights
Happy Birthday, Happiness Lab: Dr Laurie's Top 5 Shows
Nov 11
36m 27s
6 insights
You can be happier at work — here's how from Fixable
Oct 28
34m 39s
15 insights
How to Thrive at Work
Oct 21
1h 1m
40 insights
How to Fail at Work
Oct 17
42m 38s
15 insights
Advice from The Titans of Happiness on World Mental Health Day
Oct 10
1h
44 insights
How to Make a Difference (Happily)
Sep 30
32m 11s
15 insights
How to Disagree Better
Sep 23
33m 3s
22 insights
Survival of the Fittest... or the Kindest?
Sep 16
33m 13s
14 insights
How to Find Hope in a Cynical World
Sep 9
43m 6s
7 insights
Find Hope and Banish Cynicism... Coming Sept 9
Sep 2
4m 3s
9 insights
"Happiness Is Like A Leaky Tire" from Immigrantly
Aug 5
44m 30s
15 insights
The Happiness Lessons Helping Win Olympic Medals
Jul 29
29m 29s
17 insights
The Happiness of the Long Distance Runner
Jul 22
33m 53s
29 insights
How Talking to a Friend Helps (Live at The International Festival of Arts and Ideas)
Jul 19
48m 42s
7 insights
A Matter of Life and Death
Jul 15
32m 37s
20 insights
Why Don't We Have a 15-hour Work Week?
Jul 8
35m 21s
17 insights
Does the You of Today Hate the You of Tomorrow?
Jul 1
28m 15s
10 insights
The Power of Awe... and Where to Find it
Jun 24
31m 26s
13 insights
How to Tame Stress
Jun 17
37m 16s
8 insights
How I Stopped Fearing Boredom
Jun 10
25m 30s
9 insights
How to Fight Perfectionism
Jun 3
29m 43s
9 insights
My Personal Struggle to be Happy (Coming June 3)
May 27
1m 53s
2 insights
Happiness Through Generosity : Liz Dunn on The TED Interview
May 20
53m 14s
26 insights
Unlock Your Hidden Potential with Adam Grant and Maya Shankar
May 13
42m 28s
18 insights
Five Tips to be Happier at Work (Dr Laurie at SXSW)
May 6
56m 12s
17 insights
Tame Those Devices: 10 Tips to Achieve Digital Balance
Apr 29
39m 24s
23 insights
How to Grow After Adversity
Apr 22
40m 42s
24 insights
Simple Ways to Feel Great Every Day - with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
Apr 15
52m
11 insights
How to Make America's Young People Happier Again
Apr 8
37m 25s
11 insights
Can Happiness Ward Off Dementia?
Apr 1
35m
16 insights
What Can We Learn From the Happiest Country on Earth?
Mar 25
37m 57s
11 insights
Pushkin Hosts Celebrate World Happiness Day
Mar 20
48m 5s
16 insights
The Happiness of Subtraction
Mar 11
35m 55s
12 insights
Why the "Good Enough" Relationship Beats the "Perfect Partner"
Mar 4
39m 55s
18 insights
A Supercommunicator's Guide to Love and Dating
Feb 26
51m 2s
16 insights
Can Couples Learn to Argue Better?
Feb 19
34m 41s
20 insights
Love Lessons from the "Masters of Relationships"
Feb 12
45m 29s
14 insights
The Sweet Smell of Happiness
Feb 5
51m 54s
7 insights
How Getting Active Can Make You Happier
Jan 15
20m 4s
25 insights
Being Green Doesn't Mean Sacrificing Fun... or Cutting Out Meat
Jan 8
27m 21s
9 insights
Why our Brains Don't Fear Climate Change Enough
Jan 2
37m 5s
17 insights
2023
When Stalin Killed the Weekend - A Happiness Lab/Cautionary Tales Crossover
Dec 18
36m 41s
11 insights
Build The Life You Want from Oprah's Super Soul
Dec 15
54m 28s
18 insights
Is There a Gen Z Happiness Crisis? Dr Laurie Meets the US Surgeon General
Dec 11
35m 40s
15 insights
How Eating Got Complicated
Dec 4
43m 10s
13 insights
Awe and Psychedelics with Michael Pollan
Dec 1
37m 57s
5 insights
Giving Away Cash Makes You Happy... and Transforms Lives
Nov 27
27m 45s
12 insights
Make America Happy Again
Nov 20
31m 29s
26 insights
Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Nov 13
30m 8s
7 insights
Don't Make Friends Where You Make Your Money?
Nov 6
33m 36s
23 insights
Ask for Help... and Spread Happiness
Oct 30
25m 3s
16 insights
The Introvert's Guide to Extroversion
Oct 23
29m 29s
14 insights
Text a Friend... Right Now!
Oct 16
26m 5s
17 insights
How to Make Friends and Compliment People
Oct 9
29m 31s
12 insights
Grover’s Super Solution to Self-Talk
Oct 2
28m 51s
11 insights
Big Bird Has Big Feelings
Sep 25
28m 41s
22 insights
Dr Laurie and Sesame Street: Abby Cadabby and the Magic of Gratitude
Sep 18
31m 41s
29 insights
Build the Life You Want... Advice from Arthur Brooks and Oprah
Sep 12
53m 12s
25 insights
Laurie Has Fun... Part 2 ICYMI
Aug 7
31m 33s
20 insights
Laurie Has Fun... Part 1 ICYMI
Aug 7
37m 19s
11 insights
'Do We Even Have Fun Anymore?' A Listener's Story of Funterventions
Jul 31
36m 48s
15 insights
The Unhappy Millionaire ICYMI
Jul 24
40m 6s
14 insights
'I Woke up in an Ambulance Stuck in Traffic.' : A Listener's Story of Recovery
Jul 17
48m 1s
13 insights
Ask Us Anything! Laurie and Gretchen Take Your Questions (Live from Toronto)
May 29
33m 41s
12 insights
With Elmo's Help... It's Never Too Early to Learn About Happiness
May 22
32m 41s
9 insights
Can Spiritual Experiences and Psychedelics Make us Happy? (LIVE from DC)
May 15
41m 44s
6 insights
Why We're Mean to Our Future Selves (LIVE from Boston)
May 8
40m 38s
7 insights
The Man Who Invented Happiness Science: Marty Seligman
May 1
41m 5s
8 insights
Smell, Taste and Touch: How to Joyfully Awaken Your Senses
Apr 24
32m 4s
25 insights
Sight and Sound: How to Joyfully Awaken Your Senses
Apr 17
34m 19s
28 insights
Do We Need a New Word for 'Happiness'? Katie Couric talks to Dr Laurie Santos
Apr 10
35m 13s
17 insights
Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Sikhism and Daily Habits
Apr 3
31m 2s
10 insights
Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Sikhism and How We're All Connected
Mar 27
26m 35s
11 insights
Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Yoga of the Mind
Mar 20
34m 41s
30 insights
Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: The Trauma of Troy
Mar 13
37m 21s
6 insights
Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: The Anger of Achilles
Mar 6
32m 12s
9 insights
Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Aristotle and Plato ICYMI
Feb 27
56m 2s
20 insights
Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Socrates and Self-Knowledge
Feb 20
44m 41s
14 insights
The Happiness of Silence
Jan 30
32m 20s
21 insights
Stop Looking for the Perfect Job - a "Good Enough Job" is Just Fine
Jan 23
31m 34s
10 insights
A Daily Workout to Tackle Nagging Self-Criticism
Jan 16
24m 44s
13 insights
How to Eat Intuitively
Jan 9
33m 52s
34 insights
Stop Endlessly Chasing the "Next Big Thing"
Jan 2
34m 41s
12 insights
2022
Coming Jan 2: Let Your Inner Voice be Heard in 2023
Dec 19
2m 37s
4 insights
Giving Tuesday: Why Giving Money to Others Makes us Happier
Nov 29
31m 57s
11 insights
Happier Parents, Happier Kids Pt 2: Letting Children Try and Fail
Nov 7
31m 54s
24 insights
Happier Parents, Happier Kids Pt 1: Your Child Isn't a VIP or a Fragile Vase
Oct 31
29m 45s
28 insights
Hulking Out! Why You Change When You're Angry
Oct 24
31m 4s
8 insights
You Only Live Once... So Commit
Oct 17
31m 38s
6 insights
The Fun of Eating a Pepper Hotter Than the Sun
Oct 10
29m 18s
15 insights
From Revisionist History: The Starvation Experiment
Oct 6
31m 22s
4 insights
Why Living Without Regret is a Bad Idea
Oct 3
30m 9s
15 insights
The Handbook for Sonic Happiness - A Twenty Thousand Hertz/Happiness Lab Mash-up
Sep 26
42m 59s
14 insights
Move to Your Happy Place
Sep 19
31m 32s
15 insights
Nerd Out! The Happiness of Being a Fan
Sep 12
32m 28s
14 insights
The Secret to Making Friends as an Adult
Sep 6
32m 19s
14 insights
The Joy of Star Trek, The Grateful Dead and Hot Sauce: The Happiness Lab Returns September 6
Aug 22
3m 2s
5 insights
Q: "What Did the Pandemic Teach Us About Happiness?"
Aug 1
36m 32s
10 insights
Q: "How Do I Stop Negative Self-talk?"
Jul 25
31m 29s
7 insights
Q: "Can You Be Happy Alone?"
Jul 18
39m 30s
17 insights
Malala on Burnout, Guilt and How to Disagree Better
Jul 11
30m 23s
12 insights
Q: "Are We Born to Work? Or Born to Live?"
Jul 11
32m 4s
11 insights
Laurie Answers Your Happiness Questions - Coming July 11
Jul 4
2m 5s
2 insights
Burnout and How to Avoid It
Feb 21
33m 33s
16 insights
Fighting that "Meh" Feeling of Languishing
Feb 14
41m 54s
19 insights
When Guilt is Good... and When it's Not
Feb 7
33m 3s
32 insights
Embracing Sadness in the Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 31
35m 3s
33 insights
How to be Angry Better
Jan 24
35m 3s
19 insights
Stepping Off the Path of Anxiety
Jan 17
26m 42s
26 insights
The Eight Pillars of Grieving
Jan 10
32m 57s
21 insights
The Paradox of Grief
Jan 10
29m 52s
11 insights
Emotions Are Data...So Listen to Them
Jan 3
44m 50s
13 insights
How to Identify Your Negative Emotions
Jan 3
36m 48s
20 insights
2021
Reset Your Relationship With Negative Emotions in 2022
Dec 20
3m 18s
7 insights
How to Give More Effectively
Nov 30
27m 8s
12 insights
How to Adopt a Growth Mindset
Nov 23
21m 34s
16 insights
The Happiness Lab Presents: Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon
Nov 22
5m 31s
3 insights
How to be Happier at Work (with Dan Harris)
Nov 8
50m 43s
14 insights
How to Feel More Empathy (With the Host of Bad Women: The Ripper Retold)
Nov 2
37m 58s
18 insights
An 80s nostalgia-fest with Molly Ringwald and Rob Lowe
Oct 25
1h
12 insights
Laurie Gets a Fun-tervention (Part Two: Beach Party)
Oct 11
29m 26s
27 insights
Laurie Gets a Fun-tervention (Part One)
Sep 27
35m 6s
19 insights
How to Handle Change
Sep 22
37m 50s
24 insights
The Kindness of Strangers
Sep 20
32m 25s
9 insights
You Can’t Always Want What You Like
Sep 13
39m 47s
10 insights
Let Slip the Dogs of More Happiness
Sep 6
38m 13s
14 insights
Treating the Pain of a Broken Heart
Aug 23
33m 49s
10 insights
Why Nostalgia Ain't So Rosy
Aug 16
34m 45s
6 insights
The Happiness Lab Meets No Stupid Questions
Aug 9
36m 54s
10 insights
Hidden Brain: Laurie Talks Monkeys and Bad Money Decisions.
May 10
48m 9s
13 insights
Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Lao Tzu
May 3
33m 14s
22 insights
Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Confucius
Apr 26
33m 31s
13 insights
Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Forgiveness
Apr 19
29m 29s
14 insights
Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: The Day of Rest
Apr 12
30m 2s
13 insights
Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: The Torah
Apr 5
27m 57s
14 insights
Move More... But for the Right Reasons
Jan 25
33m 5s
16 insights
Feed Yourself Like You'd Feed a Loved One
Jan 18
36m 40s
13 insights
Reconnect With The Moment
Jan 11
33m 58s
22 insights
Dump Your Inner Drill Sergeant
Jan 4
36m 50s
22 insights
2020
Happier Holidays: How to Celebrate No Matter What
Dec 14
37m 31s
27 insights
Happier Holidays: How to Give and Receive the Perfect Gift
Dec 7
30m 7s
20 insights
Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: The Buddha
Oct 5
28m 56s
14 insights
Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Epictetus
Sep 28
29m 2s
16 insights
Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Plato
Sep 21
27m 22s
10 insights
Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Aristotle
Sep 14
28m 25s
12 insights
How to Be a Better Ally
Jun 29
37m 8s
20 insights
The War For Kindness
Jun 22
35m 1s
8 insights
Demonic Possessions
Jun 15
25m 17s
11 insights
How to Kick Bad Habits (and Start Good Ones)
Jun 8
32m 14s
12 insights
Dial D for Distracted
Jun 1
30m 13s
12 insights
For Whom the Alarm Clock Tolls
May 25
34m 16s
25 insights
Working Your Way to Happiness
May 18
33m 53s
14 insights
PJ and Alex Love to Gripe
May 4
29m 39s
7 insights
Psychopaths and Superheroes
Apr 27
29m 36s
14 insights
New Season: The Happiness Lab Returns April 27
Apr 23
1m 16s
3 insights
Good Screens and Bad Screens
Apr 20
23m 18s
23 insights
Helping the Helpers
Apr 16
38m 55s
13 insights
Laurie's Personal Tips
Apr 9
35m 52s
28 insights
Keep Your Relationship Healthy
Apr 2
25m 56s
14 insights
Help Others to Help Yourself
Mar 30
28m 56s
17 insights
Calm Can Be Contagious
Mar 26
39m 1s
21 insights
Rising to a Challenge
Mar 23
26m 16s
16 insights
Coach Yourself Through a Crisis
Mar 19
25m 55s
6 insights
Beat Your Isolation Loneliness
Mar 16
22m 21s
12 insights
Sleep When You're Dead Tired (LIVE with Arianna Huffington)
Jan 27
27m 46s
23 insights
Think Yourself Happy (LIVE from Yale)
Jan 20
29m 53s
6 insights
Grateful Expectations
Jan 13
26m 59s
15 insights
A New Hope
Jan 6
22m 53s
6 insights
2019
BONUS: A Happier Christmas
Dec 16
8m 44s
9 insights
Making the Grade
Nov 19
33m 25s
8 insights
Make 'Em Laugh
Nov 15
34m 44s
10 insights
Choice Overload
Nov 5
35m 7s
22 insights
Don't Accentuate the Positive
Oct 29
41m 26s
17 insights
Don't Think of the White Bear
Oct 22
38m 48s
7 insights
Caring What You're Sharing
Oct 15
38m 1s
7 insights
Mistakenly Seeking Solitude
Oct 8
34m 24s
15 insights
A Silver Lining
Oct 1
40m 53s
8 insights
The Unhappy Millionaire
Sep 24
37m 39s
11 insights
You Can Change
Sep 13
38m 29s
17 insights
Coming Soon: The Happiness Lab Season One
Aug 27
3m 55s
4 insights
Introducing: The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Jul 24
1m 21s
3 insights