positive psychology Tag

by Ron Doyle for Psychology Today Hey there! You know all that news you've been hearing about that MTV/Associated Press study that says college students are stressed and obsessed about social media and technology? Guess what? It also says they're happier today than they were two...

10 October, 2010

From OnePowerfulWord In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and ethicist Stephen Post have...

08 October, 2010

by Alex Lickerman for Psychology Today When I was a fourth-year medical student, I once did a month-long rotation in the ER. One night a woman came in who we decided needed some lab work. When I let her know we needed to draw her blood,...

05 October, 2010

Anthony Seldon: The politics of optimism will be the defining theme of our century The danger of the _ãÄBig Society_ã_ approach is the opposite to what many Tories fear, not that it will be too important but that it will not be central enough Steve Hilton, David...

03 October, 2010

by Todd Kashdan for Psychology Today Can trying to be happy interfere with creating happiness? Asked what is the fundamental objective of life, the vast majority of people answer quickly and definitively- happiness. Their lives are organized around trying to be happy. Sounds good, right? Sounds...

01 October, 2010

As you may well be aware, we're in the process of launching a very exciting, new positive psychology coaching program; a program based on science, steeped in fun and ultimately, a program that will effectively help you achieve weight loss where you may well have struggled...

30 September, 2010

by Robert Biswas-Diener (www.intentionalhappiness.com) Most people claim to want to have children and just about everybody loves their children. Which is why it is so interesting that Nobel-Prize winner Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues found that working women consider taking care of kids to be...

28 September, 2010

By Alastair Jamieson for the Telegraph Wellington College, the boarding school that introduced lessons in wellbeing and positive psychology four years ago, is extending happiness classes to parents, too. Weekend 'taster sessions', costing Ô£40 per person, are being offered at the school in school in Crowthorne,...

21 September, 2010

by Michelle Gielan for Psychology Today Oversized bag of popcorn? Check. No one blocking my view? Check. A movie that is going to teach me about myself or inspire me? Let's tackle that one! Movies can have immense power over us and inspire us to be brave, try...

20 September, 2010