Amelie Chance uses Science to Heal Broken Hearts
Modern science has been used to create new things and to resolve old problems. Yet, can science help you heal a broken heart? Amelie Chance…
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Positive Psychology and Parenting
Recent research in the field of positive psychology provides many useful tools that promote good mental health, but these same tools can be used to…
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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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Eliminating Negativity using Positive Psychology
Positive psychology offers a unique perspective on mental health by focusing on the ways in which well-being can be improved. One of the most extraordinary discoveries…
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Positive Psychology Helps Kids with Separation Anxiety
Around the country, kids have been heading back to school, and those first few weeks can be extremely stressful for some children. Separation anxiety, jangled…
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Mindfulness Training Improves Well Being in Teen Boys
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…
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China Embraces Positive Psychology
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,…
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Positive Emotion Leads to Better Physical Health
Positive psychology is an approach that helps people identify and learn ways to achieve better life satisfaction. The definition of positive psychology as developed by Seligman…
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Positive Psychology Can Improve Education
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,…
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Positive Psychology and Healing Broken Hearts
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….
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More Family Physicians Use Positive Psychology
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…
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Practicing Gratitude Enhances Well Being
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,…
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Positive Psychology and Understanding Happiness
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…
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Positive Psychology in Parenting
Positive psychology, an approach to mental health that focuses on the ways in which people thrive, has a number of applications. Not only is it…
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2010 Templeton Positive Neuroscience Awards
The 2010 Templeton Positive Neuroscience Awards, over $2.9 million in research funding, have been announced by the Positive Psychology Center of the University of Pennsylvania…
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Positive Psychology Can Help People Embrace Change
Embracing change is difficult for most people, but positive psychology can help make change easier. Particularly when it comes to making changes for health, diet,…
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Happiness Medicine: Exercise
In June, the Exercise is Medicine™ (EIM) World Congress gathered delegates from more than 50 countries with the united goal of building a healthier world….
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Positive Psychology Conference Promotes Mental Health Treatments
A three day conference on “Positive Psychology: A New Approach to Mental Health” took place in Jaipur this month, hosted by the Amity University Rajasthan….
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One in Five Men Not the Marrying Type
Your suspicions have been confirmed: some guys just aren’t the marrying type. In fact, in a study conducted by the National Marriage Project, a research…
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How To Be a Child To a Toxic Parent
Parents with delusional and other personality disorders are incredibly difficult to live with. Parenting advice and magazines abound but there is a dearth of information…
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Happily Married Women Have Better Stress Responses
Happily married women are better able to control their stress than women whose marriages are unhappy. UCLA researchers, led by Darby E. Saxbe, a graduate…
