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by Adele Horin for the Sydney Morning Herald WHAT makes women happy? Julia Gillard's ascension to power in June made Australian women very happy, according to a new study that has charted the nation's well-being for a decade. ''It could be the swearing in of a woman...

24 November, 2010

by Cian Traynor for the Irish Times BEFORE MARTIN Seligman became a happiness guru, he spent years studying why humans and animals would give up in apparently hopeless situations. Seligman himself wasn_ã_t known for looking on the bright side. By the psychologist_ã_s own account, he was...

11 November, 2010

Here at The Happiness Institute we've argued for a long time that it's hard to be happy if you're literally sick and tired all the time. It is, in contrast, much easier to be happy, and to live an active and fulfilling life, if you're...

06 September, 2010

Apple iPhones to _ãÄmap happiness_ã_ By Matt Warman for the UK Telegraph London School of Economics project will ask iPhone users to say how happy they are and compare answers to location. A new iPhone app has been developed by researchers at the LSE in a bid to...

17 August, 2010

BEING HAPPY!By Lionel Ketchian (www.HappinessClub.com) The term "Excessive Happiness" was used in the movie Patch Adams. The truth is that there is no such thing. Having excessive Happiness is like having excessive money. Imagine someone telling you that his or her problem in life is...

17 August, 2010

Recent research on consumer habits shows that many Americans have moved from _ã–conspicuous consumption_㝠to _ã–calculated consumption_㝠_ã_ buying less, and being choosier about purchases _ã_ and that doing so may actually make people happier. What do you think makes you happy? Stephanie Rosenbloom describes some...

11 August, 2010

There are lots of good ones out there but this happiness quote is one of the best...

09 August, 2010

by Richard Alleyne for the Telegraph UK Researchers discovered that the way people judge others says as much about their own mental wellbeing as it does about the person they are describing. The more likely people are to see others as happy, kind-hearted and emotionally stable...

05 August, 2010