Laurie Santos

@lauriesantos · New Haven, CT · joined 20 Apr 2009

Professor of Psychology at @Yale / Host of The Happiness Lab podcast / Find me at https://t.co/L4VkXCe3cX

37 921Followers

405Following

5 082Posts total

42.2KViews on collected posts

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Laurie Santos@lauriesantos19 Jun

@lauriesantos @jedeneve @HappinessRpt https://t.co/wDjx0ACpp4

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Laurie Santos@lauriesantos1 May 2025

Breaking my Twitter hiatus for a special announcement: My new free online course, The Science of Well-Being for Parents is here! If you're a parent who wants to feel happier, this class is for you! Learn more at: https://t.co/TEKdbU43QF. Please R/T. #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth ht

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Laurie Santos@lauriesantos3 Dec 2024

It's Giving Tuesday! 🎉 Last year, Happiness Lab listeners raised over $100K to lift a village in Rwanda out of extreme poverty! Happiness expert Nick Epley joins me on today’s episode to explore why giving feels so good & how we can make it a daily habit: https://t.co/GmZK247eVS

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Laurie Santos@lauriesantos19 Nov 2024

Cool paper alert by my colleague @julia_a_leonard 2.9K views · 8 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Laurie Santos@lauriesantos19 Nov 2024

For decades, developmental psychologists have observed that optimism declines with age. Why does this seemingly positive behavior diminish over time? In our Nature Reviews Psych article, Jessica Sommerville and I offer an integrated theory. https://t.co/HpoOyIducu 12.9K views · 85 likes · 28 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Laurie Santos@lauriesantos13 Nov 2024

Cool new paper by @iamlindachang & @katy_milkman 3.3K views · 12 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Laurie Santos@lauriesantos25 Jun 2024

@lauriesantos @jedeneve @HappinessRpt Thanks for sharing, love you course on Coursera 59 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Laurie Santos@lauriesantos20 Mar 2024

@lauriesantos @jedeneve @HappinessRpt Excellent, can’t wait to hear the podcast 😊 81 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Laurie Santos@lauriesantos20 Mar 2024

Happy International Day of Happiness! Super excited to celebrate in London w/@jedeneve who shared a copy of the #WorldHappinessReport @HappinessRpt released today. Check out our special Happiness Lab podcast series about the report which begins today: https://t.co/2OOOzf4Tsf http

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

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15.4K20 Mar

5925 Jun

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Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.93%20 Mar

1.23%

3.39%25 Jun

0.46%13 Nov

0.89%19 Nov

0.34%

0.95%3 Dec

1.67%1 May

0.00%19 Jun

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes68.4%284 in total

Reposts16.1%67 in total

Replies9.4%39 in total

Bookmarks6.0%25 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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