It's Thursday morning, and as I watch the hordes of workers walking down the city streets and heading into their Sydney CBD offices and jobs, I don't see many smiling faces. Now obviously I don't know what's going on in their lives but surely, our...
BY KIM CAROLLO, JOHN BERMAN AND ALICE MAGGIN
March 8, 2011
ABC News
Alvin Wong always considered himself a happy guy.
"I get up in the morning and say, 'I'm very fortunate. I'm living in Hawaii, doing what I want to do,'" Wong said.
But when Wong, 69, learned he...
Following on from the above, on the same day Prof. Sharp also found this great Huffington Post article on finding happiness via achieving your goals. It begins like this...
I recently stumbled upon and read this great article from the Huffington Post about happiness and facebook, taking control versus allowing others to control. Here's a sample...
I've already noted that I'm a bit tied up these last few days and also over the weekend so my apologies for not posting any longer or more meaningful happiness articles but...
A new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper called “International Happiness,” by economists David G. Blanchflower of Dartmouth College in the U.S. and Andrew J. Oswald of the University of Warwick in England, offers some insights.
Blanchflower and Oswald give an overview of findings, in...
A review of more than 160 studies of human and animal subjects has found "clear and compelling evidence" that – all else being equal – happy people tend to live longer and experience better health than their unhappy peers.
The study, in the journal Applied Psychology:...
