Positive Psychology News
From the monthly archives:
While nearly half of all marriages will end with divorce, pre-marital relationships, at least once in every person’s life, almost always end in break up. Every person who becomes involved in a relationship will eventually and inevitably experience the dissolution of the relationship.
Positive psychology can be used to mend broken hearts, and one study has [...]
Positive psychology is a treatment approach that helps people live more fulfilled lives without resorting to medicine. It is an approach by which family physicians are able to help meet the gap in mental health services, and the use of positive psychology as a treatment by family physicians is a growing trend. By focusing on [...]
The accumulation of material goods seems to be innate to human nature, but does all of this materialism actually make us happy? While some goods, like having a place to live and things to eat, contribute to our well-being, the majority of the clutter that people collect actually detracts from their ability to be happy [...]
Positive psychology has taken on the role of helping people better understand happiness and well-being. Many positive psychologists are working diligently to take the speculation out of the science and have made great strides in increasing the understanding of the underlying mechanisms of positive emotions, recognizing that the mind is capable of generating positive emotion [...]