Corey Keyes

American sociologistWikipedia

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Sep 3, 2026

Entrusted to Lead Podcast

Entrusted to Lead Podcast

The Cost of Being Capable

Sep 3 · 1 Mention

Danita CumminsHOST

4:25

So it gives me some hope that I'm not the only one.

Danita CumminsHOST

4:28

A sociologist at Emory named Corey Keyes spent decades studying this idea that sounds obvious when you say it out loud, of course, like most things.

Danita CumminsHOST

4:37

But he said that the absence of illness isn't the same as the presence of health.

Danita CumminsHOST

4:42

And his research found that a very large portion of us live somewhere in the middle.

Unknown podcast

Episode 18 Why Do We Compare Ourselves to Everyone Else?

Sep 2 · 3 Mentions

speaker_1UNKNOWN

9:06

But the modern clinical usage of the term is incredibly precise.

speaker_1UNKNOWN

9:10

It was actually popularized by a sociologist named Corey Keyes back in two thousand two.

speaker_0UNKNOWN

9:15

Okay, so this has been around for a while.

speaker_1UNKNOWN

9:16

Yeah.

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speaker_0UNKNOWN

41:10

We started in the car looking at that murky, undefined feeling of just going through the motions, and we identified the mechanics of the fog of autopilot.

speaker_1UNKNOWN

41:18

We pulled back the curtain on the brain's circuit breaker.

speaker_1UNKNOWN

41:21

We then labeled the phenomenon clinically using Corey Keyes' framework to define it as languishing, the beige void of apathy sitting squarely in the middle of the mental health continuum, entirely distinct from depression or anxiety.

speaker_0UNKNOWN

41:34

We exposed the daily behavioral traps that keep the cage locked, constantly waiting for the perfect someday, trading our curiosity for rigid certainty, and settling for safe transactional relationships that starve us of connection.

Researching Happy

Researching Happy

What if work was the solution not the cause? | Dr Kat Page

Sep 1 · 1 Mention

Kat PageGUEST

9:34

But even in academia, though, which was interesting.

Kat PageGUEST

9:37

And so I'd come in from a school of thought, you know, from positive psych and Corey Keyes and other academics who had been very prolific in explaining that mental health is actually the presence of the positive.

Kat PageGUEST

9:48

So that was the first difference that I had to him.

Kat PageGUEST

9:51

And I was also looking at more individual focused strategies at that point.

Unknown podcast

Episode 17 What Does a Happy Life Actually Look Like?

Aug 31 · 1 Mention

AlexHOST

17:56

Yeah.

AlexHOST

17:56

The Henderson and Knight Review brings in some research by Corey Keyes, right?

EmmaHOST

17:59

Yes.

EmmaHOST

18:00

Keyes is a sociologist who developed the complete mental health model.

Unknown podcast

Episode 2: Are We Really Living or Just Existing

Aug 26 · 1 Mention

speaker_0UNKNOWN

2:46

Really? How recent?

speaker_1UNKNOWN

2:47

It was formally introduced into the psychological lexicon in, uh, 2002 by a sociologist and psychologist named Corey Keyes.

speaker_0UNKNOWN

2:55

Wait, 2002? That seems incredibly late for the psychiatric community to name a feeling that humans have undoubtedly been experiencing since, like, the dawn of agricultural society.

speaker_1UNKNOWN

3:05

I know, right? It seems crazy.

The Unbreakable Podcast

The Unbreakable Podcast

The Underused Brain Treatment That Changed Their Family

Aug 26 · 1 Mention

Kait DinunzioHOST

41:05

Like, when we look at somebody who has a mental illness, there's a really great researcher out there.

Kait DinunzioHOST

41:08

His name's Corey Keyes, and he has a model where he talks about the flourishing versus languishing model and how somebody who has mental illness, whether that's, uh, PTSD, depression, um, all of those different, those different type of diagnoses, um, you can flourish with those things.

Kait DinunzioHOST

41:24

You don't-- That, it is not a death sentence-

Kelley JensenGUEST

41:26

Right

Is emotional regulation always a good thing? with Julie Bowen and Aliza Pressman

Aug 25 · 1 Mention

Adam GrantHOST

52:22

I, I'm thinking about goal displacement and identity derailment are two, two relevant terms that I think capture some of what you're going through.

Adam GrantHOST

52:30

And there's a, there's actually a really interesting Corey Keyes paper on this.

Adam GrantHOST

52:36

Uh, he coined the term languishing, and I think languishing is a lot of what happens after you had this tremendous sense of motivation and purpose, and your whole life was organized around the project or, like, the, the goals that you had for yourself or your kids.

Julie BowenGUEST

52:50

Mm-hmm.