Dr. Raj Raghunathan is Zale Centennial Professor of Business at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He is interested in how people’s judgments and decisions impact their happiness and fulfillment. Raj’s work has appeared in top journals such as
The Journal of Marketing, The Journal of Consumer Research, The Journal of Marketing Research, and
The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. His work has also been cited in several mass media outlets, including
The Atlantic, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, and
Harvard Business Review.
Raj’s Psychology Today blog, "
Sapient Nature," has more than 2 million page views. His online course on
Employee Happiness, was rated as a
Top MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) of 2019, and currently has over 6000 students. His previous MOOC has over 400,000 students from 196 countries, and was voted the Top MOOC of 2015, 2016, 2017, & 2018, and is currently one of the
Top 250 MOOCs of all time. Raj’s book,
If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t you Happy?, has been translated into 13 languages, and was featured in the
Atlantic, Time, Guardian, Times of India, Live mint, and
Mid-day. Raj’s
TED talk was viewed live (on STAR TV) by over 17 million people worldwide.