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You Can Change

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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The Science of Happiness Can Change People's Lives

The perma survey measures people's overall happiness, mood levels and sense of accomplishment. Students are asked to take the permiquiz before they start the class. At the end of the course, ten weeks later, we just got our first round of data in over a thousand subjects. We finally have a scientific measure of whether learning about the science of happiness can change people's well being. The gains are really huge. Like on a ten point scale, people are going up an entire whole point in terms of how much meaning they feel like they have in their life.

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