Marc Schulz

Marc Schulz directs the Data Science Program and is a Professor of Psychology on the Sue Kardas PhD 1971 Professorship. He is, along with Robert Waldinger, the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness (2023). He is also the Associate Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, an 8-decade-old longitudinal study of thousands of individuals from 724 families. The main focus of his scholarship is on close relationships and the role that relationships and emotional and stressful experiences play in shaping psychological and physical well-being. He studies these processes in the context of development and life transitions across adulthood. He is the author of numerous academic publications and a co-editor of two academic books. Schulz’s essays have also appeared in the popular press, including The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Big Think and CNBC.
The Good Life 
Harvard Study of Adult Development