HAPPINESS IS CONTAGIOUS! Happiness can be contagious. This is the discovery that Nicholas Christakis, Harvard University medical sociologist, with James Fowler, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, have co-authored. Christakis said: "Happiness is like a stampede. Whether you're happy depends...
Do you sometimes move automatically and unconsciously through life, reacting to people and situations? It often seems that mindlessness, rather than mindfulness, permeates our lives. We mindlessly stuff ourselves at the dinner table, whittle away hours in front of the tube, or succumb to our shopping...
Why We"re Still Happy By SONJA LYUBOMIRSKY Published: December 26, 2008 THESE days, bad news about the economy is everywhere. So why aren"t we panicking? Why aren"t we spending our days dejected about the markets? How is it that we manage to remain mostly preoccupied with the...
'Tis the season to be jolly, and to give to charity. Hard to do in this economic environment? Consider that the working poor give a higher percentage of their meager income to charity than the wealthy and middle class, and that the only reliable way...
The relationship between happiness and relegious beliefs has created much debate in the positive psychology world and it seems that different studies have arrived at different conclusions. Part of the problem is that researchers frequently define religiosity differently but nevertheless, for all of us who're...
My next book, due out around the middle of this year, is on raising happy children which is why the application of positive psychology to helping our children experience more happiness is of such interest to me (not to mention that I have two of...
I know this is coming a little late for Xmas but the implicit principles from positive psychology are timeless and relevant to the pusuit of happiness at any time of the year...
Positive psychology and parenting...
With all the misery and stress in the world it's great to remind ourselves that good things still happen. There's no doubt there are bad people in the world doing bad things; and there's no doubt that life can, at times, seem unfair. ...
The research from the exciting field of positive psychology suggests that happiness is an important component of good leadership (and by happiness, in this positive psychology context, I mean those who're high in emotional and social intelligence). A recent posting on Positive Psychology News Daily...