Loretta Breuning, PhD, is the author of Habits of a Happy Brain and The Science of Positivity. She is the Founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and Professor Emerita of Management at California State University, East Bay. As a teacher and mom, she was not convinced by prevailing theories of human motivation.

And in this episode she joins host, Gavin Abeyratne, in discussing authority, status games and the way these forces influence human behavior.