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Cambridge University researchers have discovered an application of positive psychology that vastly improves teen boys’ level of self-esteem and sense of well-being. Called mindfulness training, the researchers worked with 155 volunteer participants – 14 and 15 year old boys who spent four weeks learning mindfulness techniques.
Professor Felicia Huppert, who led the study on behalf of [...]
China is embracing Positive Psychology as a way to remain culturally intact and centered on community rather than the more Western ideal of profit. Psychologist Kaiping Peng, the founder of the Program for Advanced Study in Psychology, wealth is dominating the minds of many younger Chinese.
Peng says, “We want to switch the focus in China [...]
The field of education is one of the most prominent areas in which positive psychology can have an impact. Through the use of positive education, an approach that says it is just as important to teach skills that contribute to happiness along with traditional academic topics, supporters of positive psychology hope to improve mental health.
Nearly [...]
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 [...]