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Physical Disability Brings Marital Happiness ScienceDaily (Jan. 3, 2009) - A new study finds that the onset of physical disability boosts marital happiness more often than not. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brigham Young University professor Jeremy Yorgason's findings - reported in the academic journal Research on Aging - show what happens...

04 January, 2009

From livemint.com a publication of the Wall Street Journal The secret to happiness, science would have us believe, is shaped like a kidney and weighs less than 1kg. You can"t see it working (not directly, anyway), and its inner mechanisms were largely a mystery until recently. You...

03 January, 2009

HAPPINESS IS CONTAGIOUS! Happiness can be contagious. This is the discovery that Nicholas Christakis, Harvard University medical sociologist, with James Fowler, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, have co-authored. Christakis said: "Happiness is like a stampede. Whether you're happy depends...

02 January, 2009

Do you sometimes move automatically and unconsciously through life, reacting to people and situations? It often seems that mindlessness, rather than mindfulness, permeates our lives. We mindlessly stuff ourselves at the dinner table, whittle away hours in front of the tube, or succumb to our shopping...

02 January, 2009

Why We"re Still Happy By SONJA LYUBOMIRSKY Published: December 26, 2008 THESE days, bad news about the economy is everywhere. So why aren"t we panicking? Why aren"t we spending our days dejected about the markets? How is it that we manage to remain mostly preoccupied with the...

02 January, 2009

'Tis the season to be jolly, and to give to charity. Hard to do in this economic environment? Consider that the working poor give a higher percentage of their meager income to charity than the wealthy and middle class, and that the only reliable way...

02 January, 2009

The relationship between happiness and relegious beliefs has created much debate in the positive psychology world and it seems that different studies have arrived at different conclusions. Part of the problem is that researchers frequently define religiosity differently but nevertheless, for all of us who're...

02 January, 2009

My next book, due out around the middle of this year, is on raising happy children which is why the application of positive psychology to helping our children experience more happiness is of such interest to me (not to mention that I have two of...

02 January, 2009