Posted: April 14, 2021
In 2018, Professor Laurie Santos introduced her course “Psychology and the Good Life,” a class on the science of happiness. It became the most popular in Yale's history, attracting more than 1,200 undergraduate enrollees that first semester. An online course based on those teachings became a global phenomenon. By the latest count, 3.38 million people have enrolled to take the Coursera.org course “The Science of Well-Being.”