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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

I know from the research that we shouldn't pin all our hopes on achieving because we should feel good about ourselves and enjoy happiness regardless, just because we deserve it etc but...

03 December, 2010