24-02-2009 (22.52 MB)

Duration: 24:36 m - Filetype: mp3 - Bitrate: 128 KBPS - Frequency: 44100 HZ

Dr. Laura King

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• Dr. Laura A. King is a highly-esteemed teacher, researcher and writer in the fields of Positive Psychology, Social Psychology and Development of Character, and has an enduring interest in the topic of what makes life good.  She is currently a professor at the University of Missouri, and started her career at Southern Methodist University, where she won six different teaching awards, including the “M” award for “sustained excellence.”  Dr. King won Positive Psychology’s highest award in 2001 when she was presented with the Templeton Prize.  She has done extraordinary and fascinating research in the area of goals, happiness, life stories, regrets and meaning, and has also had her research funded by the National Institutes for Mental Health.
  
  In our fast-moving podcast interview, we jump right in with questions about how life goals and “life lists” contribute to a person’s well-being, and how writing about one’s “peak” experiences just once seems to have a lasting impact on their well-being.  Dr. King has authored new and exciting research on the role of regrets and how one can learn from “lost possible selves” as well as the well-known “best possible self” exercises (available here), which is helpful in understanding how to disengage from goals that are no longer viable.  Anyone who wants to know why goals matter needs to listen carefully to this interview and take copious notes!
  
  To learn more about Dr. King and see a website listing some of her published papers, click here.
  
  
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