# Yale’s Most Popular Class Is Now Available Free Online

Published 2020-05-21 · Updated 2026-06-09 · Education Technology on MarketScale
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> In the spring of 2018, the Yale psychology professor Laurie Santos unveiled a new course, Psychology and the Good Life. The subject was happiness. Santos’s course was a blend of abstract and concrete. It combined positive psychology with the real-life applications of behavioral science. It debunked popular notions of what makes people happy (like the…

In the spring of 2018, the Yale psychology professor Laurie Santos unveiled a new course, Psychology and the Good Life. The subject was [happiness](https://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/happiness).

Santos’s course was a blend of abstract and concrete. It combined positive psychology with the real-life applications of behavioral science. It debunked popular notions of what makes people happy ([like the luxury Mercedes-Benz status symbol](https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/opinion/the-future-of-luxury-is-freedom)) and helped students understand the habits they should build to lead truly happier, more fulfilled lives.

The course was launched in the U.S. — home to supposedly only the 19th-happiest population in the world, [according to the 2019 World Happiness Report](https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/) — at one of the nation’s most elite and high-pressure colleges.

Read the full article on [Entrepreneur](https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/350681).

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