happiness Tag

Moderate drinkers enjoy more robust health than either big boozers or teetotallers, according to a study on the link between alcohol and cardiovascular disease. But downing a glass or two of wine every day may not contribute to enhanced well-being, the researchers cautioned. More likely,...

20 May, 2010

by Timothy So from Positive Psychology News Daily Previous articles in PPND (here and here) have examined the relationship between money and happiness as well as the Easterlin paradox illustrated in the graph below. To further elaborate on why the riches are not equivalent to happiness,...

19 May, 2010

by Stacey Lawson for the Huffington Post Happiness. We all want it. We know it when we feel it. Yet, despite its rather high importance in our lives, many of us find the pursuit of happiness to be frustratingly difficult. Research indicates that our happiness, like...

18 May, 2010

What are You Counting? By Dave Shearon for Positive Psychology News Daily on May 17 Positive psychology is a science, and scientists count things and measure stuff. Ed Diener recounts how his dissertation advisor steered him away from happiness as a research topic partly by saying it couldn_ã_t be...

18 May, 2010

Why do some men and women cheat on their partners while others resist the temptation? To find the answer, a growing body of research is focusing on the science of commitment. Scientists are studying everything from the biological factors that seem to influence marital stability to...

17 May, 2010

Every day the average person meets with tens if not hundreds of others; our family and friends, work colleagues and clients, or even bus drivers and coffee baristas. But do we really "meet" with them and do we really connect with them? For most of...

17 May, 2010

Scientist inspired by Dalai Lama studies happiness By RYAN J. FOLEY (AP) After hearing about his cutting-edge research on the brain and emotions through mutual friends, the Dalai Lama invited Richard Davidson to his home in India in 1992 to pose a question. Scientists often study depression,...

16 May, 2010

By Cassie White - ABC online Having trouble finding happiness? Well, thinking about the happiness of others is the key to finding it ourselves, an expert says. The founder of the Happiness Institute, Dr Tim Sharp, says overall Australia is a pretty happy nation, although other countries...

14 May, 2010