• My monkey teacher, by Dr. Laurie Santos

  • Mar 18 2025
  • Length: 30 mins
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My monkey teacher, by Dr. Laurie Santos

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  • Psychology professor Dr. Laurie Santos is the host of The Happiness Lab podcast – and of Yale’s most popular course ever. (More than 3 million people have taken her "Science of Wellbeing" course online.) In this story, journey with Laurie to an island in Puerto Rico where she is one of only a few humans among thousands of monkeys. The company of non-humans, it turns out, can help us better understand ourselves.

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