by Cian Traynor for the Irish Times BEFORE MARTIN Seligman became a happiness guru, he spent years studying why humans and animals would give up in apparently hopeless situations. Seligman himself wasn_ã_t known for looking on the bright side. By the psychologist_ã_s own account, he was...
Kirsty Needham writes in the Sydney Morning Herald about how "Shorter working week key to happiness and jobs" To read more JUST CLICK HERE In the Huffington Post, Roya Rad asks "What is the difference between attachment, love, peace, and happiness?" To read more CLICK HERE And in Psychology...
Putting your strengths to work by Jeremy McCarthy for Positive Psychology News Daily OK, so you_ã_ve taken the VIA Survey to determine your character strengths. And after reading one (or several) of Tom Rath_ã_s books on strengths and leadership, you_ã_ve taken the Strengthsfinder 2.0 test to...
The discipline of positive psychology is advancing at an incredible rate and the good thing is that it means we're rapidly understanding more about what happiness is and how we can have more happiness in our lives! We're also understanding more and more that happiness...
by Joe Robinson for the Huffington Post Fifty percent of your happiness is genetic. Sorry, you can't do much about that. Another 10 percent comes from your circumstances (geography, family, health). So that leaves you with 40 percent of your potential happiness that you can actually...
Within the positive psychology community many have a love-hate relationship with happiness. By that, I mean that there are some positive psychologists who're concerned that the word happiness is too vague and means too many things to too many different people. Some of these academics...
I've writtem much about happiness at work before but mostly (for obvious reasons) my focus has been on psychological and interpersonal variables. That is, I typically look at happiness at work from the perspective of the individual, the team or sometimes the organisation...
A brief, semi random collection of reasons to feel better. from the New York mag _㢠Fifty-eight percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 say immigrants strengthen the country. _㢠Last year, Standard & Poor_ã_s downgraded nearly four times as many companies as it upgraded. This year, it_ã_s...
Just pause and think for a minute on the heading and sub-heading of this blog posting...
by Mary J Loftus for the Huffington Post One of the things that most irritated me about Sunday school -- and there were many, including the fact that I had to wear tights, keep quiet and not ask why God wasn't a girl -- is that...