February 23, 2010By Marie-Josée Salvas -
BOOK REVIEW: Rubin, G. (2009). The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun. Harper.
On an apparently meaningless bus drive home, Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany: “I am not as happy as I could be.” She also realized that the problem might not be the conditions of her life, per se, but with how she lived and perceived it. She wondered if she could change her life without actually changing her life, and made a year-long commitment ...
February 22, 2010By Coert Visser -
BOOK REVIEW: Wilkinson, R. & Pickett, K. (2009). The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger. New York, Bloomsbury Press.
Diminishing Returns of Economic Growth
Richard Wilkinson Kate Pickett Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, two English epidemiologists, have written a provocative book on how high levels of inequality in societies are harmful for everyone within them.
Their research shows that while economic policies in developed countries stress the importance of economic growth, the contribution of further economic
February 19, 2010By Denise Clegg - The stories we tell weave moments, days, and years into a meaningful sense of life. Researchers have found that the way we tell those stories about our own lives is directly related to long-term well-being and resilience.
But that connection may have as much to do with the listener as the teller. Studies show that listener feedback and quality of attunement fundamentally impact the teller’s memory, capacity for positive emotional regulation, and ongoing construction of meaning.
What’s Your Story?
How do you describe major life changes and ...
February 17, 2010By Dave Shearon -
How do happiness and positivity help create good things in life? How do they “work?”
I mean, really – research has shown that happiness is linked to longer life, better health, more satisfying relationships, and greater success. (These are averages. No magic. Your mileage may differ!) Happiness defined in its broadest sense can include satisfaction with life, frequent positive emotions, fewer negative emotions, and a sense of meaning or purpose.
In this broad sense, happiness contributes to success, but how? Here are three quick ...
November 23, 2009By Yee-Ming Tan - Type in the word “happiness” on iTunes.com and you’ll discover a long list of apps on this topic. There are two interesting apps developed based on positive psychology research: Live Happy and Gratitude Journal.
Live Happy by Signal Patterns
Based on the research of Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of the book The How of Happiness and professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside, this app was developed to include information, in both text and video format, that can help you better understand what is known and proven
