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by Kristen Houghton.for the Huffington Post Happiness is subjective; what makes one person happy won't necessarily make another one feel the same. But even being subjective in defining our individual criteria for happiness, there are still some basic essentials we all need to live a happy...

14 October, 2010

from the SMH Australia's women feel stressed out and unfit, and when it comes to leisure time they report just 30 minutes a day. A poll dubbed "Australia's Biggest Health Check", which gathered data from about 26,000 respondents, also reveals a significant mismatch between how much...

14 October, 2010

by David Van Nuys for Psychology Today I hope I got your attention with this title. Of course, "hijack" is too strong a term and also too pejorative. My real point is that it is clear to me advertising executives at Coca Cola and a number...

13 October, 2010

I was thinking, as I frequently do, about happiness and especially about how and why I frequently find myself experiencing happiness and other positive emotions when I'm reading a good novel (as I am at the moment) and when I'm listening to some of my...

13 October, 2010

I recently found this wonderful little article on a website interestingly called "Tiny Buddha"! 60 Things to Be Grateful For In Life by Contributor Celestine Chua _ã–We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude._㝠~Cynthia Ozick How often do you pause to appreciate what...

11 October, 2010

I recently saw an amazing statistic in which I was made aware that the best goal kicker in my local football competition (the NRL) kicked approximately 80% of the goals he attempted. Now 80% is clearly not bad but this guy is a professional athlete,...

11 October, 2010

The Spoils of Happiness - by David Sosa for the NY Times In 1974, Robert Nozick, a precocious young philosopher at Harvard, scooped _ã–The Matrix_ã: Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Super-duper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so...

10 October, 2010

by Ron Doyle for Psychology Today Hey there! You know all that news you've been hearing about that MTV/Associated Press study that says college students are stressed and obsessed about social media and technology? Guess what? It also says they're happier today than they were two...

10 October, 2010

Check out this interesting press release from Psychological Science Does thinking about time or money make you happier? A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that people who are made to think about time plan to spend...

09 October, 2010