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...students sat in Sanders Theater last Thursday watching an online trailer for the movie “Pay It Forward.” The lecturer, Tal Ben-Shahar ’96, had screened it to illustrate just how far one nice gesture can go—how easy it is, as they say in the film, to change someone’s life by taking “the things you don’t like in the world and [flipping] them upside down...
When it was over, Ben-Shahar thanked everyone for coming, and teaching fellow (TF) Jessica L. Glazer took the stage to say a few words. “Congratulations,” she said after making some announcements about section. “This is the largest psychology class in the history of Harvard...
Indeed, no matter what you think of Ben-Shahar, it’s a simple fact that he is teaching up to 20 percent of Harvard’s undergraduate population this semester. His message—that studying what works is more productive than dwelling on what doesn’t—is reaching a lot of people. Some would call him and his disciples a movement. Others think they might fit in better at a guidance counselor’s office...
...Shahar does not deny that his primary goal is to teach his students how to be happier and healthier, not to inundate them with abstract psychological theory. He wants them to learn how to feel better about themselves and become better citizens, not to slave over stuffy, abstract concepts they’ll never use in everyday life...
...psychology courses taught by the same lecturer rank among the top three most popular courses this semester. Lecturer on Psychology Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96’s Psychology 1504, “Positive Psychology,” tops the list with an enrollment of 842 students, and his new course, Psychology 1508, “The Psychology of Leadership,” is third with 512 students. According to other enrollment figures from the Office of the Registrar’s website, Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics,” remains...