happiness Tag

On a happiness scale of 1 to 10, the world scored a 6.16 Monday, according to Emotionr, a Web site that invites users to "store and keep track of your feelings" and "discover what makes people happy." Meanwhile, TweetFeel, which analyzes Twitter posts based on...

19 August, 2009

The American psychologist Robert Emmons, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Positive Psychology, is one of the foremost researchers in the psychology of gratitude, part of the growing discipline of positive psychology. Together with his colleague Michael McCullough, he has done pioneering work in the scientific...

19 August, 2009

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. - Martha Washington, 1732-1802...

18 August, 2009

I was talking to a client recently, and she lamented that despite trying to make a particular change in her life she was not having much success. Tearily, she explained that "every night I go to bed telling myself that tomorrow I'll do the right...

18 August, 2009