329. Marc Schulz The Good Life: Lessons from the Worlds Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
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Shermer and Schulz discuss: an operational definition of the \\u201cgood life\\u201d or \\u201chappiness\\u201d or \\u201cwell being\\u201d \\u2022 the reliability (or unreliability) of self-report data in social science \\u2022 relative roles of genes, environment, hard work, and luck in how lives turn out \\u2022 personality and to what extent it can be scientifically measured and studied \\u2022 factors in early childhood that shape mental health in mid and late life \\u2022 generational differences: \\u2022 the impact of loneliness \\u2022 misconceptions about happiness \\u2022 what social fitness is and how to exercise it \\u2022 what most people get wrong about achievement, and more\\u2026
Marc Schulz is the associate director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development and the Sue Kardas PhD 1971 Chair in Psychology at Bryn Mawr College. He also directs the Data Science Program and previously chaired the psychology department and Clinical Developmental Psychology PhD program at Bryn Mawr. Dr. Schulz received his BA from Amherst College and his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a practicing therapist with postdoctoral training in health and clinical psychology at Harvard Medical School. His new book, co-authored with Robert Waldinger, is The Good Life: Lessons from the World\\u2019s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness.
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