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Morale, Change, and Positive Organizations By Dave Shearon Positive Psychology News Daily July 17, 2008 Dave Shearon, MAPP, applies positive psychology to both law and education. Dave writes articles about applications of Positive Psychology to law and education at his site. This article is about morale...

Unhappiness is Part of Life By Angus Skinner Positive Psychology News Daily July 22, 2008, 9:58 pm Angus Skinner, MAPP, works in his beloved and beautiful Scotland principally as Associate Consultant with the Centre for Confidence and Well-Being. Angus is also a visiting Professor at...

Although I now practice mostly as a positive psychology coach and consultant I still remember much of my days as a clinical psychologist and I still find most of what I learned while studying clinical psychology to be useful in my current roles. Among...

Get the Most From Your Employees How to get the best from employees? Instead of trying to change them, identify their unique strengths, then help them use those strengths to excel in their own way. To identify employees' strengths, ask, "What was the best day at...

By Bruce Bower July 18th, 2008 A burst of happiness may impair children's attention to detailA new study of how mood affects thinking styles presented children with problems such as the one shown above. Participants searched for a houselike shape, left, in the larger drawing of a...

A recent article in one of the Sunday papers referred to research that identified factors associated with living longer. Among other things, it was relatively clear that many of the factors are the same as many variables identified by the positive psychology research and...

"Happiness is a state of subjective wellbeing. It is the combination of the experience of peace, harmony, laughter and love. When people are happy they are more successful in achieving their goals. They have better relationships. They make healthy choices and they end up creating...