Over-Thinking Your Life
It is healthy to be reflective, self-aware and perceptive, as these traits can serve to improve your relationships and help you to reach your goals….
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The Four Negative Thoughts Most Destructive to Happiness
All of us desire success and happiness in life. Yet, we are often the reason we are unhappy, dissatisfied, and unable to reach our goals….
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Motivate Your Child: Stop Saying, “You’re so smart!” 3 Better Ways to Praise Kids
You’re so smart!” “You’re so creative!” “You’re so . . . [insert convenient, but possibly damaging description here]” The other day during a frantic scramble…
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Buying Happiness: How Spending Habits Can Boost Positive Emotions
Hundreds of philosophers, psychologists, and religious leaders have offered commentary on the proverbial pursuit of happiness throughout the centuries. Happiness can seem like an elusive…
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Stay-at-Home Moms or Employed Moms: Who’s Happier?
If you had to choose between staying home with your kids or leaving them at a daycare while you worked, which would you choose? What…
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Does a High Income Translate Into High Happiness Levels?
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” ~Jane Austen, Mansfield Park A wealth of research exists on the connection between…
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Best U.S. Cities for Women’s Well-Being
Well-being is a broad term and encapsulates different things for different people. For some, well-being connotes a long life and good relationships, for others, it…
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Why Older People Are More Apt to Forgive and Forget
People become happier as they get older, according to recent research. Happiness significantly rises for the over 50-crowd, and while physical health may decrease as…
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The First-Ever World Happiness Report Findings
On April 2, 2012, happiness had a leading role on the world stage: the United Nations held its Conference on Happiness at its headquarters in…
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Using Positive Psychology to Control Stress
The economy and unemployment situation in the U.S. has led to increased stress across the country. Mental health professionals and medical doctors are reporting higher…
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Happy Teens Are Healthy Teens
Teens that are happy are mentally healthier, according to a study conducted by Emily Shaffer-Hudkins of the University of South Florida, but that sense of…
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Money and Happiness Go Hand in Hand
Money really does buy happiness. At least that’s the results according to one survey, in which more than 125,000 people around the world participated. Across…
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Positive Psychology Important for Youth, Military Families
When thinking about the psychological issues facing adolescents and young teens, policy makers and even parents often tend to focus on preventing negative outcomes. In…
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Happiness Found in Fandom and Socializing
Fans of soccer, hip-hop, Glenn Beck, Lady Gaga, and knitting all share one thing in common. People who are active, enthusiastic fans experience benefits to their…
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A Genuine Smile Found To Improve Health, Happiness
Smiling can improve mental health and boost happiness, but experts at a recent conference were split on whether it must be genuine or not. Psychologists…
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Happiness Gene Identified
Researchers have identified a “Happiness Gene” responsible for a persistent elevation in a patient’s baseline level of happiness over time, regardless of life circumstances. The…
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Can People Smell Happiness?
A study recently presented at the Association for Psychological Science annual convention revealed some interesting findings about emotional smells. Apparently the closer that partners are…
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Happiness Linked to More Alone Time
A recent survey commissioned by the automaker, Skoda, revealed that 60% of the people surveyed were happier when driving because they could be alone. Many…
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New Tools for Measuring Happiness Developed
One of the challenges for positive psychology is pinning down the concept of happiness. We all think we know what happiness is when we see…
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Americans Happier Than Before Recession
Americans reported that their lives were better in 2010 than before the economic meltdown in September 2008. In fact, life satisfaction was higher than at…
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Being Kind, Doing New Things Both Linked to Happiness
Psychologists have long known there was an association between performing acts of kindness and being happy. Although the correlation was clear, the relationship of cause…
