happiness Tag

Psychology Today - Nigel Barber Some of us are a lot more optimistic than others. There is no sugar-coating the fact that some people have happy genes and others do not. Geneticists estimate that genes are responsible for about 50 percent of the differences in how...

03 December, 2009

Feel festive, cheerful and blessed around the holidays--but then slide into the doldrums in the first weeks of the New Year? Financially illiterate and then suddenly started blogging about how the ups and downs of the stock market impacted you emotionally? Felt patriotic--or depressed--when Obama...

03 December, 2009

Loneliness, like happiness, can be contagious, says research out today that shows how feeling lonely can make others lonely, too. The study by John Cacioppo, a psychologist at the University of Chicago, builds on recent research showing that happiness is contagious and spreads through social networks. Cacioppo...

03 December, 2009

From www.postandcourier.com Therapeutic costs of happiness - Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Now it's not just your mother saying it. Scientists in England are saying that money really doesn't buy happiness. But there's a catch. Money does buy psychological therapy, which buys happiness. Researchers at the University...

01 December, 2009

HAPINESS FORMULA  By Lionel Ketchian WHAT'S UP DOC? You'll be up! Just as soon as you read this article and start putting it to work. Nine years ago, Stacy asked me the following question. Can't you give us a formula for happiness? Can't you give us a...

01 December, 2009

Do you let negativity rule your work? Would you like more positivity and happiness in your career? If so, read on and enjoy this short article from The Happiness Institute's free eNewsletter that went out this morning...

30 November, 2009

In today's Sydney Morning Herald I came across a very interesting story in which one man has made some interesting life choices and arguably, found a very real form of happiness (for him, anyway). Here's a short excerpt...

28 November, 2009

In the paper, Communicating and Philosophizing about Authenticity and Inauthenticity in a Fast-Paced World, Becky DeGreeff, Ann Burnett and Dennis Cooley at North Dakota State University suggest that living life in the fast lane is actually preventing us from achieving true happiness. So first, let me...

28 November, 2009