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'I spent a month talking to strangers to see if it would make me happier'

Greg Bruce
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Senior multimedia journalist·Canvas·
14 mins to read

Greg Bruce tries the talking cure.

In a recent New York Times article discussing people's misconceptions, including her own, about what makes a happy life, Yale University Professor Laurie Santos, teacher of The Science of Well-Being Psychology and the Good Life, the most popular course in Yale history, said: ''One of the most shocking ones for me is a study looking at how simple interactions with strangers positively affect your wellbeing." Even for introverts, she said, "a simple chat with

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