Psychology and the Good Life
Joe Weaver, Ph.D.
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About This Podcast
Humans have been writing about the best way to live for over 5,000 years across religion, philosophy, and now science. This podcast explores ideas about living and how science can help guide our choices.
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S1E15 Feeling the Good Life
In our last week, we're talking about feelings and emotions and how they connect with the good life.
S1E16 The Best is Yet to Come
This is it! The final episode! Congrats to all! In the last episode, we look back and we look forward to life lived well.
S1E14 Strategies for Success
We're wrapping up our week on achievement with some strategies for successful goal striving.
S1E13 Need to Achieve
In this episode, we discuss our need to achieve and what it means for the good life and I interview Dr. Josh Ode about goals, achievement, and identity in sports.
S1E12 Engage!
In this episode, we're getting into the flow and making things happen! It's time to engage the good life!
S1E11 Engaging the Good Life
"The good life is not for the faint hearted" but it is for the intrepid, for those who engage it. We'll discuss the benefits of engagement in the good life in this episode.
S1E10 Purposeful Pivots
We are continuing to talk about about meaning and purpose in the good life. In this episode, I speak with a non-traditional student who reflects on the pivots she's made in her career and life to…
S1E9 Mental Health and Meaning
In our first episode focusing on meaning and the good life, I speak with Dr. Travis Pashak about clinical psychology, existentialism, meaning making, and fruit.
S1E8 Friends, Lovers, and Coworkers
We wrap up our mini-series on relationships with friends, lovers, and coworkers.
S1E7 Family
In this first episode of a new mini-series, we explore the impact of families on the good life.
S1E5 Movement
In the last episode of our mini-series on the mind-body connection for the good life, we discuss movement.
S1E4 Nutrition
In the second of the three-part mini-series on the mind-body connect, we discuss nutrition's role in the good life.
S1E2 Modern Perspectives
In this episode, we transition from philosophy to modern psychological science in search of the good life.
S1E1 A Long History
In this episode, we explore some of the philosophical and religious traditions in understanding the good life. I speak with Dr. Cory Potter (host of the Mind and Faith Matters podcast) about a…
S1E3 Sleep and The Good Life
In this episode, we explore sleep and how it influences the aspects of the good life as outlined in the PERMA model of flourishing.
S1 Introductions
Let's get to know one another and learn about this course.
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Psychology and the Good Life has published 16 episodes since June 2025, covering topics in Courses, Education.
Psychology and the Good Life is currently dormant with new episodes every few days. Average episode length is 32m.
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