By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY Being a friend of Chandler DeWitt's means never having to say "Where are you?" The freshman at North Carolina's High Point University says she and her friends have "six or seven ways" to get in touch most days: cellphone, texting, instant messaging,...
The emphasis of positive psychology on happiness and on building the best things in life and making people_ã_s lives fulfilling does not imply that we should ignore problems or dismiss the negative emotions that people experience. Positive psychology can make an additional contribution by offering...
What makes us happy? Nicolas Kristof recently wrote a thought-provoking piece in the New York Times on what makes us happy: "Our Basic Human Pleasures: Food, Sex and Giving." Since we are reading and writing a buddhist blog here, we probably are fairly familiar with...
HAVE you seen the latest Coca-Cola advertisement with the word ''Happiness'' in the shape of a bottle? The message is clear. Drink Coke and you'll be happy. This is not just clever advertising but a pin-sharp comment on how we are supposed to equate happiness...
Being a positive psychologist involves the ability to apply state-of-the-art psychological research to people's lives. It requires going beyond overcoming the unhappiness stemming from past problems. Alleviating suffering is a good thing, of course, but it's insufficient for achieving happiness. When a positive psychologist counsels people,...
Want to be happier in 2010? Then try this simple experiment, inspired by recent scholarship in psychology and neurology. Which person would you rather be: Richard is an ambitious 36-year-old white commodities trader in Florida. He_ã_s healthy and drop-dead handsome, lives alone in a house...
The concept of positive psychology is growing in the fields of psychology, management studies and organizational behavior. The focus of this trend is the movement away from the focus of psychology on "fixing" or "repairing" problems to building positive qualities and behaviors. In addition, a...
Check out this very interesting article about the most important emotions...
Check out this fascinating example of positive psychology in practice...