MeWeRTH’s Reading for Well-Being Community Book Club
From MeWeRTH Director, Dr. Joanna Pozzulo
Welcome to MeWeRTH’s Reading for Well-being Community Book Club!
Reading is associated with several health benefits including improved mental health, stress reduction, and improved cognitive function. Benefits of community include improved well-being, decreased social isolation, and increased connectedness.
Each month I’ll select an evidence-based book focused on a dimension of well-being, known as Professor Pozzulo’s Picks. I’ll also give you my take on the book. We will use a digital platform to post book selections and reviews and communicate with each other. And if you’re reading a book that you want others to know about, you too can post about it! We will have draws for book giveaways and host book events throughout the year.
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Dr. Pozzulo interviews Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross, authors of Your Brain on Art: How the arts transform us (2023).
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Dr. Pozzulo interviews Dr. Ethan Kross author of Chatter: The voice in our head, why it matters, and how to harness it, (2021). Listen here:
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Dr. Pozzulo interviews Dr. Marc Shultz co-author of The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness by Robert Waldinger, MD and Marc Schultz, Ph.D. (2023). Listen here:
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Professor Pozzulo’s Picks
Reading is one of the most enjoyable activities. It is exciting when psychological science makes its way into popular books. Here are my Professor Pozzulo’s Picks.
-Dr. Joanna Pozzulo, Director, MeWeRTH
How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Katy Milkman (2021, published by Portfolio) – Jan 2025
Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other by Sophie Grégoire Trudeau (2024, published by Random House Canada) – Dec. 2024
Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton (2013, published by Simon & Schuster) – Nov. 2024
Chatter: The Voice in our Head, Why it Matters, and How to Harness it by Ethan Kross, (2021, published by Crown) – Oct. 2024
Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most by Cassie Holmes, Ph.D. (2022; published by Gallery Books) –Sept. 2024
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross (2023; published by Random House) –August, 2024
The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness by Robert Waldinger, MD and Marc Schultz, Ph.D. (2023; published by Simon & Schuster) –July, 2024
Why we sleep: Unlocking the power of sleep and dreams by Matthew Walker, Ph.D. (published by Simon & Schuster) –June, 2024