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The pursuit of happiness is sometimes easier said than done. Some scientists have argued that happiness is largely determined by genetics, health and other factors mostly outside of our control. But recent research suggests people actually can take charge of their own happiness and boost...

23 February, 2010

Just a quick note, for those who're not aware, there are a range of options for catching more happiness outside reading this blog...

21 February, 2010

If you do a nice thing for someone else knowing you'll reap some benefit yourself, is it still a good deed? What if your primary reason for doing it is because of the benefits it'll bring you? Researchers spend a lot of time debating whether any...

20 February, 2010

For those of us interested in happiness, positivity and optimism there are, from time to time, those against we need to defend our choices. Some, for example, criticise positive psychology and the pursuit of happiness (including the choice of optimism) without, in my opinion, really...

20 February, 2010

It takes more than a vacation to make people happy. Indeed, vacationers tend to be happier than non-vacationers in the lead up to their break, but once they are back, there is very little difference between the two groups_ã_ levels of happiness. These findingsÔ_ by...

19 February, 2010

Nailing our happiness colours to the wall   Happiness. Love. For most of us these are all lovely notions, floating in balloons of abstraction in the stratosphere; limited to art more than science. Measuring these thing looks like too hard basket material. But more and more that's...

18 February, 2010