happiness Tag

The Spoils of Happiness - by David Sosa for the NY Times In 1974, Robert Nozick, a precocious young philosopher at Harvard, scooped _ã–The Matrix_ã: Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Super-duper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so...

10 October, 2010

by Ron Doyle for Psychology Today Hey there! You know all that news you've been hearing about that MTV/Associated Press study that says college students are stressed and obsessed about social media and technology? Guess what? It also says they're happier today than they were two...

10 October, 2010

Check out this interesting press release from Psychological Science Does thinking about time or money make you happier? A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that people who are made to think about time plan to spend...

09 October, 2010

'Happy Coffins' Make Funerals Less Grim Come on, baby, don't fear the reaper. That's the message, not from Blue Oyster Cult, from a Singapore nonprofit that recently revealed a series of coffins featuring fanciful designs and festooned with cheery slogans, such as "Say hello to my...

08 October, 2010

From OnePowerfulWord In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and ethicist Stephen Post have...

08 October, 2010

We often say yes because we want to make others happy and are afraid to admit we aren't superhuman. Learn to say no, advises Marshall Goldsmith What kills happiness? It's usually a series of simple little things, like saying yes too much when you really should...

07 October, 2010

Most of us have thought, 'If only I could win the lottery, then I'd be happy forever.' But according to one of the first studies to look at long-term happiness, major life events, like a sudden cash windfall, are not what make us happy, rather,...

07 October, 2010

by Stephen Lunn for The Australian THE delightfully (or, depending on your political bent, dangerously) goofy ex-AFL footballer turned politician Justin Madden has one of the best titles going around as Victoria's Minister for the Respect Agenda. But if some Melbourne researchers have their way, his...

05 October, 2010

by Alex Lickerman for Psychology Today When I was a fourth-year medical student, I once did a month-long rotation in the ER. One night a woman came in who we decided needed some lab work. When I let her know we needed to draw her blood,...

05 October, 2010

I've spoken much and written lots about the first 3 "W's" that go towards finding happiness and living a great life; but this week I bring you two more "W's". Before outlining the 4th and 5th, however, let's review the first three...

04 October, 2010