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Title:  "What Actually Keeps Us Happy and Healthy?: Lessons from an 87-Year Study of Human Life" 

Learning Objectives: Please list 3 learning objectives for your talk 

At the end of this talk, participants will: 
1.  Understand the cultural myths that create unrealistic expectations about what promotes human thriving. 
2. Be familiar with the unique advantages of longitudinal research for studying adult lifespan development. 
3. Understand the primary mechanisms thought to underlie the connection between interpersonal functioning and mental and physical health. 

Bio 

Robert Waldinger is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the longest studies of adult life ever done. The Study has tracked 724 families for over 85 years to understand how childhood experience reaches across decades to affect health and wellbeing in adulthood.  His TED talk about the Harvard Study has over 50 million views. With his colleague Marc Schulz, he recently published the book, The Good Life, which examines the central role of relationships in shaping our lives. He directs a teaching program in psychodynamic psychotherapy at Massachusetts General Hospital, and he writes about what science can teach us about healthy human development.   He is also a Zen master (Roshi) and teaches meditation in the US and internationally.