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by Todd Kashdan for Psychology Today Can trying to be happy interfere with creating happiness? Asked what is the fundamental objective of life, the vast majority of people answer quickly and definitively- happiness. Their lives are organized around trying to be happy. Sounds good, right? Sounds...

01 October, 2010

from Computer Weekly Using social networking sites, such as Facebook, makes a direct impact on our happiness, according to a report by the Chartered Institute for IT, BCS. A report, titled "The Information Dividend: Why IT makes you happier", claimed the use of IT and internet...

30 September, 2010

As you may well be aware, we're in the process of launching a very exciting, new positive psychology coaching program; a program based on science, steeped in fun and ultimately, a program that will effectively help you achieve weight loss where you may well have struggled...

30 September, 2010

by Jacquelyn Ferguson Thankfully, psychology is taking a different view of and approach to mental health. Historically, it focused on what's wrong with us: depression, schizophrenia, etc. Now, with the leadership of Positive Psychology pioneer, the University of Pennsylvania's Martin Seligman, psychologists are increasingly focusing...

29 September, 2010

by Carl Richards for the NY Times You may have heard about the recent study out of Princeton University, in which Daniel Kahneman, a winner of the Nobel in economic science, and co-author Angus Deaton found that people reported an increase in happiness as their incomes...

28 September, 2010

by Robert Biswas-Diener (www.intentionalhappiness.com) Most people claim to want to have children and just about everybody loves their children. Which is why it is so interesting that Nobel-Prize winner Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues found that working women consider taking care of kids to be...

28 September, 2010

by Jonathan Rottenberg, Ph.D. for Psychology Today   Nothing could be more American than the pursuit of happiness. Along with life and liberty, the pursuit of happiness is written into the Declaration of Independence as a fundamental right. Everyone I know wants to be alive, free, and...

27 September, 2010

This morning's free eNewsletter, sent out by The Happiness Institute each and every Monday morning, includes 2 guest articles that both, in very different ways, touch on the relationship between happiness and music. I hope you find them of interest...

27 September, 2010