money Tag

by Douglas Kenrick for Psychology Today Two days ago, I was happily walking down a street in Vancouver with my wife and my 6-year-old son. A young woman biked by, looking rather content.  I recognized her as Elizabeth Dunn, a young professor at the University of...

09 August, 2010

Can you really put a dollar value on happiness? I'm not so sure! But this research, the launch of which I was involved in last week, tries to do just that and there's no doubt it makes for some interesting reading...

31 July, 2010

This article refers to a presentation I gave just the other day in which I was asked to comment, at an AMP business lunch, on the findings of a report looking into the relationships between happiness, life satisfaction, money, marriage, employment status and a range...

29 July, 2010

by Bridget Grenville-Cleave for Positive Psychology News Daily Readers of my previous articles in Positive Psychology News Daily may remember that one of my fascinations with positive psychology is the existence of its many paradoxes. Some of these have acquired official labels, such as ...

26 July, 2010

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely made a big splash with his first book, Predictably Irrational. He_ã_s now released a new book called The Upside of Irrationality. Jill Schlesinger talks with the behavioral economist about big Wall Street bonuses, the best ways to buy happiness, and the...

18 June, 2010

by Christopher Peterson for Psychology Today I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.- Pablo Picasso The relationship between money and happiness has long been of interest to those of us in the modern world, and in the past few years, positive psychologists...

09 June, 2010

Bernanke on the economics of happiness - from the Examiner Last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke addressed the graduating class of 2010 at the University of South Carolina. In an effort to be more interesting than financial economics, Bernanke_ã_s specialty, might allow, the Chairman instead...

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