December 2010

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down _ãÄhappy._ã_ They told me I didn_ã_t understand...

09 December, 2010

You might think that something as amorphous as country-wide happiness would be hard to gauge, but demographers have given it a go nonetheless. The results of several studies are gathered in The Happy Planet Index. Probably the key studies in the lot come from the 2005...

09 December, 2010

Happiness isn't always knowing all the answers, sometimes it's asking the right questions; so on this Wednesday I thought I'd suggest a few happiness boosting questions for you to ask yourself and/or your family, friends and colleagues...

08 December, 2010

from the blog of Jeremy McCarthy In the last several years, psychology has been flipped on its head with the growth and popularity of positive psychology. While psychology traditionally has focused on studying things we want less of such as depression and mental illness, positive psychology...

08 December, 2010

As important as your religious beliefs may be to you, they don't necessarily make you happier, a new study in the American Sociological Review finds. What does make you more satisfied with your life, the study finds, is having friends at your congregation and a...

07 December, 2010

an article by Sherri Fisher for Positive Psychology News Daily Being More than Just Satisfied Even if you are presently satisfied with your life, and most people say they are, you probably would like to be more than just satisfied. One of the things we know about positive...

07 December, 2010

While recently watching the first Harry Potter movie I was prompted to consider whether or not I would see happiness if I looked into the Mirror of Erised. What is the Mirror of Erised? Well, according to the official Harry Potte wiki...

06 December, 2010

One of the best websites in this area of happiness and positive psychology is called Fishful Thinking and the content is primarily written by the wonderful Dr. Karen Reivich (an expert on, among other things, resilience...

06 December, 2010

We're very excited to announce (for the first time in this context) that Dr. Happy will be appearing on TV, in an SBS documentary titled "The House of Food Obsessives", trialling The Happiness Diet (a worlds first application of positive psychology coaching for weight and...

06 December, 2010