positive psychology Tag

Writer Ariel Gore was dismayed by what she viewed as overly narrow conclusions about women's happiness from studies in the growing field of Positive Psychology_ã”were women truly happiest when scrubbing floors and baking cookies, as some studies seemed to suggest? Were findings about nuns' positive...

05 February, 2010

Are there positive ways to combat employee negativity? Are you interested in improving personal and organizational performance and at the same time personal and organizational well-being and happiness? Over the long Christmas / New Year / summer break which many Australians enjoy, I took the...

04 February, 2010

Influential people like Sonja Lyubomirsky, Tal Ben-Shahar, and Barbara Fredrickson advocate meditation as a positive intervention. This enthusiasm is probably driven by research suggesting that meditation can have a profound impact on health and well-being. For example meditation has been linked to higher levels of...

02 February, 2010

So you have some extra cash in your pocket. Do you spend it on the latest gizmo or on going to a restaurant with friends? How does your choice affect your happiness? Money as an Inexact Surrogate Given that January is synonymous with high street sales, I...

27 January, 2010

Happiness is not just a feeling but a science. CBS station WCBS-TV in New York spoke to the experts to learn not only how to get happy, but how to stay that way. It was a popular New Year's resolution for 2010. But just like...

27 January, 2010

Being a positive psychologist involves the ability to apply state-of-the-art psychological research to people's lives. It requires going beyond overcoming the unhappiness stemming from past problems. Alleviating suffering is a good thing, of course, but it's insufficient for achieving happiness. When a positive psychologist counsels people,...

17 January, 2010

When it comes to happiness, women have a common resistance: Happiness is selfish, they say. But our refusal to be happy doesn't make us compassionate. Our refusal to be happy just makes us mean. My maternal grandmother was one of those people who made a conscious...

10 January, 2010

Positive psychology is concerned with what makes like worth living, and since its beginning, positive psychologists have done a good job of moving under their umbrella more and more relevant concepts. Passion is one of the recent notions claimed by positive psychology, and my purpose...

08 January, 2010

I do love January: The weather is dicey, the days still too short, but new projects abound. This is the year we are going to detox, get in shape, meditate, save the world--or at least ourselves This is the year we are going to write the book,...

04 January, 2010