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The science of happiness (w/ Laurie Santos)

How to Be a Better Human

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What It Means to Be Happy With Lori Santos

Lori Santos is a professor of psychology at Yale University and host of the Happiness Lab podcast. We wanted to see whether or not some of the standard economic biases that humans showed were shared with monkeys too. And what we found was that the monkeys were pretty rational in all the spots that humans were rational, but they also showed all the same irrational biases that humans tended to show.

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