Joe Weaver, Ph.D.

Psychology and the Good Life

Science EN ↓ 16 episodes

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.

Author

Joe Weaver, Ph.D.

Category

Science

Podcast website

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Latest episode

Aug 11, 2025

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Episodes

The Best is Yet to Come 11.08.2025

This is it! The final episode! Congrats to all! In the last episode, we look back and we look forward to life lived well.

Feeling the Good Life 11.08.2025

In our last week, we're talking about feelings and emotions and how they connect with the good life.

Strategies for Success 04.08.2025

We're wrapping up our week on achievement with some strategies for successful goal striving.

Need to Achieve 04.08.2025

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.

Engage! 28.07.2025

In this episode, we're getting into the flow and making things happen! It's time to engage the good life!

Engaging the Good Life 28.07.2025

"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.

Purposeful Pivots 21.07.2025

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 follow her good life.

Mental Health and Meaning 21.07.2025

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.

Friends, Lovers, and Coworkers 15.07.2025

We wrap up our mini-series on relationships with friends, lovers, and coworkers.

Family 14.07.2025

In this first episode of a new mini-series, we explore the impact of families on the good life.

Movement 07.07.2025

In the last episode of our mini-series on the mind-body connection for the good life, we discuss movement.

Nutrition 07.07.2025

In the second of the three-part mini-series on the mind-body connect, we discuss nutrition's role in the good life.

Modern Perspectives 30.06.2025

In this episode, we transition from philosophy to modern psychological science in search of the good life.

A Long History 30.06.2025

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 Christian perspective on the good life.

Sleep and The Good Life 25.06.2025

In this episode, we explore sleep and how it influences the aspects of the good life as outlined in the PERMA model of flourishing.

Introductions 01.06.2025

Let's get to know one another and learn about this course.

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