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Psychology's Marc Schulz Appears on CBS Evening News

November 26, 2023

Professor of Psychology Marc Schulz, who is co-author of The Good Life: Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness appeared in a CBS Evening News segment on the benefits of intergenerational friendships.

 

From the segment

"The payoff that we get from connections with people that are different from us have the potential to be even bigger than the connections we make with people that occupy a similar place in life as us, or are right next door to us," said Marc Schulz, a psychology professor at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.

Watch the segment

Schulz is the associate director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development and the Sue Kardas Ph.D. 1971 Chair in Psychology at Bryn Mawr. He also directs the Data Science Program. Schulz received his B.A. from Amherst College and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a practicing therapist with postdoctoral training in health and clinical psychology at Harvard Medical School.

Bryn Mawr’s Psychology Department offers courses from among a wide variety of fields in psychology: clinical, cognitive, developmental, physiological and social. Majors can focus on more specialized areas through advanced coursework, seminars, and especially through supervised research. The Data Science program is an interdisciplinary collaboration that includes a minor in Data Science and significant programming for all in the Bryn Mawr community.

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