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Icon for www.psychologytoday.comPsychology Today · Jan 22, 2025

What Is Happiness?

Fortunately, the same principle applies to setbacks ... of thoughts below exemplify these misconceptions about happiness: Positive psychology is the branch of psychology that explores human ...
The New York Times · 23h

Our Idea of Happiness Has Gotten Shallow. Here’s How to Deepen It.

In fact, the season unfolds like a sly symposium on the many meanings of happiness in an age of TED Talks, best-selling manifestoes and podcasts that chirp endlessly about self-optimization and the elusive “best life.
Icon for www.ucdavis.eduucdavis.edu · 2d

The Secret to Happiness Lies Within You, Or Society — Or Both

“We have to understand the sources of happiness to build effective interventions,” said Emorie Beck, assistant professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, and first author on the paper. There are two major models of happines
Neuroscience News · 1d

Happiness Is as Unique as You Are

A large international study shows that happiness does not stem solely from either external circumstances or internal attitudes, but varies widely between individuals.
Icon for www.psychologytoday.comPsychology Today · Aug 3, 2020

The Science of Happiness

Positive psychology is a school ... Beyond those overarching principles, specific models and concepts have emerged as well. What is a happiness set point? Created with Sketch.
Icon for www.businessinsider.comBusiness Insider · Nov 27, 2020

Legendary Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert outlines 8 money principles will bring you the most happiness for your dollar

With that tension in mind, Gilbert, author of "Stumbling on Happiness," and his colleagues suggest the following principles to guide your spending. 1. Buy experiences instead of things.
The New York Times · 2d

How Nearly a Century of Happiness Research Led to One Big Finding

At the time, the study of happiness was far from the wellness mega-field it has become today. In the ’60s, a researcher making a rare foray into the subject noted that very little progress on the theory of happiness had been made since Aristotle weighed in two millenniums earlier.
Icon for www.nationalreview.comNational Review · Sep 16, 2015

‘The Gospel of Happiness’: How Faith and Positive Psychology Work Together

Kaczor: Positive psychology is not a self-help-y, feel-good fad, but a scientific endeavor to determine what what does and does not increase happiness. Positive psychologists test potential ...
Icon for time.comTime · Jan 8, 2019

Why Chasing Happiness Might Be Making You Miserable

wp:paragraph --> The latest indication comes from a study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. It measured how motivated college-age students were to find happiness vs.
Deseret News on MSN.com · 9d

How to find happiness when it seems the whole world is conspiring against it

In the Harvard Happiness Study — the landmark research that’s spanned 87 years and is ongoing — the original cohort of men were between the ages of 18 and 21 when the Second World War broke out. Ninety percent went off to war. Half of them, a group that included President John F. Kennedy, had just graduated from Harvard.
Icon for www.theatlantic.comThe Atlantic · 10d

The Knowledge That Brings True Happiness

Still, given what I now do for work, I have to ask: How exactly does higher education affect happiness? Not because college costs a family, on average, nearly $40,000 a year (per student), which ...
Icon for www.theatlantic.comThe Atlantic · May 1, 2022

In Pursuit of Happiness

The Atlantic’s In Pursuit of Happiness event kicked off this spring to help people build more intentional and happy lives. Drawing on our celebrated coverage of the practices and principles of ...
Icon for finance.yahoo.comYahoo Finance · 27d

Higher Net Worth May Boost Happiness - Especially With Help From a Financial Advisor

The survey also pinpointed four core principles of happiness – fulfillment, intention, impact and gratefulness – and gauged how much respondents identify with each. All participants in the ...
Cerritos Community News · 2d

How Smart Money Management Leads to More Life Enjoyment

Envision making financial decisions that ensure your future stability and enhance your present contentment. Understanding the psychology of money and happiness elucidates the influence of your
Icon for www.dmnews.comDirect Marketing News · 25d

These 8 tiny lifestyle upgrades make a surprisingly huge difference in your happiness, according to psychology

Research from Frontiers in Psychology shows that there’s a clear link between consistent quality sleep and life satisfaction. So if you’re chasing happiness, sleep isn’t just a luxury—it ...