happiness Tag

Anthony Seldon: The politics of optimism will be the defining theme of our century The danger of the _ãÄBig Society_ã_ approach is the opposite to what many Tories fear, not that it will be too important but that it will not be central enough Steve Hilton, David...

CHOICE POWER!By Lionel Ketchian Why choose happiness? Because that's what you really want. When something makes you unhappy, the reason you feel that way is because you think someone or something took your happiness away from you. When you are unhappy you become a victim...

by Todd Kashdan for Psychology Today Can trying to be happy interfere with creating happiness? Asked what is the fundamental objective of life, the vast majority of people answer quickly and definitively- happiness. Their lives are organized around trying to be happy. Sounds good, right? Sounds...

from Computer Weekly Using social networking sites, such as Facebook, makes a direct impact on our happiness, according to a report by the Chartered Institute for IT, BCS. A report, titled "The Information Dividend: Why IT makes you happier", claimed the use of IT and internet...

As you may well be aware, we're in the process of launching a very exciting, new positive psychology coaching program; a program based on science, steeped in fun and ultimately, a program that will effectively help you achieve weight loss where you may well have struggled...

by Jacquelyn Ferguson Thankfully, psychology is taking a different view of and approach to mental health. Historically, it focused on what's wrong with us: depression, schizophrenia, etc. Now, with the leadership of Positive Psychology pioneer, the University of Pennsylvania's Martin Seligman, psychologists are increasingly focusing...

by Carl Richards for the NY Times You may have heard about the recent study out of Princeton University, in which Daniel Kahneman, a winner of the Nobel in economic science, and co-author Angus Deaton found that people reported an increase in happiness as their incomes...

by Robert Biswas-Diener (www.intentionalhappiness.com) Most people claim to want to have children and just about everybody loves their children. Which is why it is so interesting that Nobel-Prize winner Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues found that working women consider taking care of kids to be...