April 2008

The Sad Stats On Happiness, Money And TV By JONATHAN CLEMENTS The Tampa Tribune Published: April 6, 2008 Put down the remote and slowly back away from the TV. Despite the sharp rise in our standard of living in recent decades, Americans today are little or no happier than earlier...

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WASHINGTON - Screaming sports coaches and cutthroat tycoons have it wrong: Nice guys do finish first, a new study suggests. The Harvard University study involved 100 Boston-area college students playing the same game over and over - a punishment-heavy version of the classic one-on-one brinksmanship game...

The science of happiness, more formally known as positive psychology, uses many tools and strategies to achieve its outcomes. Among these are "appreciative enquiry" and the identification and utilisation of strengths. Among other things, these have been utilised to enhance happiness and wellbeing...

When happiness knocks Ruth Ostrow | April 04, 2008 I heard a wonderful parable the other day that captures something so profound I thought it worth repeating. A man returned from war to find his five-year-old son had been killed when bandits came in and sacked...

Money tilts the happiness scale Vancouver Sun Published: Friday, April 04, 2008 The old bromide that money can't buy happiness is accepted as conventional wisdom and researchers have bent over backwards trying to prove that it's true. But too often the surveys and studies measure the wrong things. Dozens...

Giving Money Brings Joy Published On Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:03 AM By HYUNG W. KIM Contributing Writer A study has found that money does indeed bring happiness-spending money on other people, that is. Authored by Harvard Business School professor Michael I. Norton and Elizabeth W. Dunn "99,...

Check out the Wall Street Journal's article "On happiness, money and TV". It reviews a good study in the happiness area, conducted by a few of the very well known happiness researchers (including economists) and provides some practical happiness tips to boot. Click here to...

Here at The Happiness Institute we've long considered meditation as one of the more useful strategies for those wanting to experience more happiness by living in, and enjoying the present moment. Well, here's a nice confirmation of our beliefs in an article that reviews some...