positive psychology Tag

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

What are You Counting? By Dave Shearon for Positive Psychology News Daily on May 17 Positive psychology is a science, and scientists count things and measure stuff. Ed Diener recounts how his dissertation advisor steered him away from happiness as a research topic partly by saying it couldn_ã_t be...

18 May, 2010

Yesterday I provided an introduction and link to a well written defence to the attacks on the science of happiness, positive psychology. Today, I invite you to read Ted's follow up titled "More Reasons Barbara Ehrenreich Is Wrong About The Benefits of Optimism" which he...

28 April, 2010

Some time ago, a new book came out attacking positive psychology and the happiness movement. It was, in many ways, quite inaccurate and many of its criticisms were invalid and unfounded. At the time, I wrote several posts defending the happiness "industry" and challenging some of...

27 April, 2010

Here at The Happiness Institute we believe, very strongly, that achieving happiness requires nothing more than practising a few simple disciplines every day. But to practice these positivity disciplines we need to know what to do and where to look for happiness (as opposed to...

21 April, 2010

By Rob Silverblatt of USNEWS (click here for original article) Over the past several years, Richard Davidson has peered into the minds of monks, pored over brain scans, analyzed neural proc­esses, and maybe_ã”just maybe_ã”discovered some of the keys to manufacturing happiness. dblclick('xxlA'); Davidson, a professor at the University...

15 April, 2010

At the end of last year (2009) a fascinating study was published in The Journal of Positive Psychology; in this paper a number of researchers from Belgium and the UK explored what they called _ã–mental time travel_㝠and the effects of daily practice. In simple terms,...

12 April, 2010

by John Grohol from PsychCentral Yes, I know. There are dozens of books written about how to increase your happiness, probably hundreds of different blogs all promising you the secrets to the keys of happiness, and thousands of articles written on this topic. Since the positive...

11 April, 2010