This morning I spent a few hours of my time teaching the principles of happiness and positive psychology to a room full of wonderful people doing wonderful things (see HERE for course details).
There were people in the room working at and representing fantastic not-for profit...
If you do a nice thing for someone else knowing you'll reap some benefit yourself, is it still a good deed? What if your primary reason for doing it is because of the benefits it'll bring you?
Researchers spend a lot of time debating whether any...
The old adage "'Tis better to give than to receive" now has science to back it up. Indeed, from giving gratitude to giving to those in need (whether that be your time or money), studies show that many people report better health and better states...
In the media this last week and featured in the New York Times editorial page yesterday is a new study on happiness by Andrew Oswald of Warwick University in England and Stephen Wu of Hamilton College in NY. It explores quality of life data like...
As I've said and written many times before, happiness is not just feeling good; happiness is just as much about doing good.
There is a growing body of valid and reliable research from which we can confidently conclude that _ã–in giving, we receive_ã. That is,...
