The Smiling Professor: A Conversation With Daniel Gilbert http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/science/22conv.html By CLAUDIA DREIFUS At Harvard, the social psychologist Daniel Gilbert is known as Professor Happiness. That is because the 50-year-old researcher directs a laboratory studying the nature of human happiness. Dr. Gilberts Stumbling on Happiness was a New York...
Be happy and live longer. Don't worry and enjoy a long life. Happiness may well be the answer to living a long and healthy life. Click here to read more And read, or re-read the last sentence carefully: "He said his research on about 1,500 centenarians...
It was Margaret Thatcher who famously said she needed only five hours' sleep a night - but lack of sleep shouldn't be a badge of honour. There can be some serious consequences of not getting enough shut-eye. Sleep experts say you shouldn't abandon hope if you're...
It's become almost cliched these days to note that wealth will not lead to happiness...
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. - Helen Keller, 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author and Lecturer This wonderful quote hardly needs a happiness or positive psychology interpretation but how about...
More lessons from my iPod (April 20) A few weeks ago I wrote about a lesson I"d learned from playing with my iPod and that lesson, discovered via the wonders of what the people at Apple call 'shuffle mode", was that we could all benefit from...
According to Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D., Positive Psychologist and former president of the American Psychological Association, the quest for happiness has existed since the time of Aristotle. What makes the journey towards understanding and obtaining happiness in 2008 different from the journey humans have taken...
At The Happiness Institute we spend much of our time delivering our "Happiness @ Work" programs. Within these we (obviously) focus on enhancing happiness in the workplace and as part of this we believe that happiness at work is closely associated with helping people...
Older folk are happier Monday, 21 April 2008 SmartCompany New research has found that older people tend to be the happiest people in a population, defying the stereotype of the grumpy old man or woman. Wired reports that University of Chicago researchers interviewed almost 30,000 people of...
In collaboration with one of Australia's newest, but leading online career network sites, JobX, we've developed a free, online Happiness Test in which you can assess your level of happiness within minutes. You can also re-test yourself at regular intervals to see how you're...
