One person's happiness starts a chain reaction that spreads to their friends and even their friend's friends, researchers found. Scientists have taken advantage of the tight networks of friends and family who are enrolled in the Framingham Heart Study to examine how social behaviors can...
First comes love - then comes retirement Survey: Couples have more happiness, less sex after they stop working The conventional wisdom about the way retirement affects married couples goes something like this: Once the husband and wife find themselves stuck in each other's company every minute of...
In the thick of a global financial crisis, many economists have come to this Himalayan kingdom to study a unique economic policy called Gross National Happiness, based on Buddhist principles. When considering economic development, policymakers here take into account respect for all living things, nature, community...
As I've written many times before, positive psychology is not just happiology; it is about enjoying positive emotions such as happiness as often as possible but it's also about approaching challenges and normal negative emotions, such as fear, in a constructive manner. This positive psychology...
For the full review - click here Happiness - Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth by Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener This book is written by a father-son team, Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener. Both have done extensive research in the happiness field, with latter collecting data,...
According to the wonderful science of positive psychology happiness is many things but primary, among the key drivers of happiness, is gratitude. And according to my friend Lionel Ketchian, gratitude is attitude - I hope you enjoy Lionel's (as always) simple but profound words...
From Ridgecress CA comes an article about financial security and it's relationship with happiness. We know from the positive psychology research that the link between money and happiness is weak; this short piece sums up the findings quite nicely and succinctly. To read...
The science of positive psychology suggests that happiness might only be a letter away! The secret to happiness may be in expressive writing; specifically, writing letters to people showing gratitude. Steven Toepfer, an assistant professor of family and consumer studies at Kent State University, conducted a...
This is what we do here at The Happiness Institute - we help individuals, teams and organisations to apply the principles of positive psychology often, to boost morale, engagement, productivity and other key variables in the workplace. And we're not the only ones doing it;...
From http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2008/11/24/Employment_engagement_is_profitable/UPI-69391227503459 ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Employee engagement, which leads to unusually effective employee behavior, subsequently reflects in organizational success, U.S. researchers suggest. William H. Macey and Benjamin Schneider said employee engagement refers to the positive feelings employees have about their job as...