Robert Waldinger
Harvard psychiatrist who directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development.
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- Robert Waldinger is an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and Zen priest, born in 1951.
- He is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development.
- The study followed 724 men for nearly 80 years and now studies their children.
- His TED talk on its lessons about happiness has had over 51 million views.
- With Marc Schulz he wrote The Good Life (2023).
Key facts
- Born
- 1951; grew up in Des Moines, Iowa1
- Role
- Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development; professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School1
- Education
- Harvard College (1973, summa cum laude); MD, Harvard Medical School (1978)1
- Book
- The Good Life (January 2023, with Marc Schulz)1
- Also
- Zen priest and sensei in the Sōtō and Rinzai lineages; founding director of the Lifespan Research Foundation1
- Finding
- The quality of close relationships predicts long-term health and happiness better than wealth, fame, class, IQ or genes1
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