happiness Tag

Older people should give up seeking success and status if they want to be happy after they retire, suggests a new study. Andrew Burr and colleagues from Concordia University in Canada study, report their findings in an upcoming edition of the Journal of Happiness Studies. The researchers...

18 November, 2009

First, from Positive Psychology News Daily - Negative Emotions have a Place in Life Often times positive psychology can be misconstrued (sometimes apparently without any effort to get it right!) as a movement to eliminate negative emotions like anger, fear, anxiety, embarrassment, and shame. Such an...

18 November, 2009

FACED with rising rates of depression, post traumatic stress disorder, drug abuse and suicide among its war-weary soldiers, the Pentagon has turned to the founder of positive psychology, Martin Seligman, to train its troops in how to lead happier lives. The aim of the four-year program...

18 November, 2009

Happiness is a sappy word and a flimsy concept _ã” more fleeting than contentment, several octaves lower than joy. But happiness is what pollsters test and economists track, however clumsily, so we're stuck with it as the medium for measuring our mood. Not surprisingly, that...

16 November, 2009

PETER MARTIN - Brisbane Times November 16, 2009 WHAT'S a marriage worth? To an Aussie male, about $32,000. That's the lump sum Professor Paul Frijters says the man would need to receive out of the blue to make him as happy as his marriage will over his...

16 November, 2009

There are many, many empirically proven resources for boosting your happiness now so you don't have to resort to gimmicky "secrets" or magical cures; stick with the science and what really works...

16 November, 2009

by Dr. Ranit Mishori I write a lot of prescriptions_ã”for pills, creams, and physical therapy. One thing I can_ã_t dictate a dose of_ã”though I wish I could_ã”is a positive attitude. I_ã_ve always suspected that patients who _ã–look on the bright side_㝠tend to handle medical problems...

14 November, 2009

I've alread tweeted on this at http://twitter.com/drhappy but it's such a good story and such a wonderful project, undoubtedly relevant to all of us interested in happiness and positive psychology, that I thought I'd bring you another story on this, this time from The Examiner...

13 November, 2009

How do you view the difficult events that show up in your life, or happen in the world around you? I'm open about the fact that I was very depressed during my residency, and even before that, it often seemed that life's events were relentlessly...

13 November, 2009