Articles: Why Lent Makes People Happy (and Netflix Doesn’t)
By Jason Marsh, Robb Willer | March 21, 2013New research suggests that cutting back on life’s pleasures helps us enjoy them significantly more.
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Articles: Can Awe Buy You More Time and Happiness?
By Stacey Kennelly | August 17, 2012A study shows feeling awe can make people feel like they have more time, and might make them more likely to help others.
Articles: 10 Steps to Savoring the Good Things in Life
By Stacey Kennelly | July 23, 2012We get plenty of advice for coping with life’s negative events. But can we deliberately enhance the impact of good things on our lives?
Raising Happiness: Enthusiastic Spouses Have Happy Marriages
By Christine Carter | February 2, 2011Why cheerleaders live happily ever after
Raising Happiness: Celebrate Summer
By Christine Carter | July 27, 2010Why we can all enjoy the summer, before it passes us by.
Articles: The Hows of Happiness
By Jason Marsh | July 21, 2010Seven research-tested strategies for a happier life.
Articles: Taking In the Good
By Rick Hanson | November 1, 2009Psychologist Rick Hanson explains how we can make good feelings last.
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Why Compassion in Business Makes Sense
April 15, 2013Emma Seppala explains how compassionate workplaces are good for employee health and the corporate bottom line.
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How to be a Happy Working Dad, Part One
March 27, 2013A new report finds that fitting work with family isn't just a women's issue. Jeremy Adam Smith offers 10 tips for helping fathers to navigate a changing landscape at home and on the job.
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When Getting Angry Makes You Happy
April 2, 2013A new study shows how seeking happiness at the right time may be more important than seeking happiness all the time.
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2nd International Conference on Positive Psychology: “Giving Hope – Giving Future”
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Here’s How Much You Love Humanity
May 21, 2013Results from the Greater Good "Love of Humanity" quiz.
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World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements
May 21, 2013A Q&A with visionary educator John Hunter, creator of the World Peace Game.
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Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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Finds that feeling gratitude produces kind and helpful behavior, even when that behavior is costly to the individual actor.
- "Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review"
Compassion evolved as a distinct affective experience whose function is to enable cooperation and protection of those who...
- "From Jerusalem to Jericho"
This article on bystander intervention in emergency situations suggests that we are likely to help a “shabbily dressed”...
- Center for Investigating Healthy Minds
The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, runs a state-of-the-art neuroscience...
- Northeast Foundation for Children
Northeast Foundation for Children is a non-profit educational organization that offers educators the Responsive Classroom...
- Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship
Based at the University of Michigan Business School, this is a networking community for researchers and practitioners...
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Why We Cooperate
Nature and nurture interact to inform, and reform, cooperative behavior. Infants and apes are both able to share, but only the two-year-old will pick up that thing you dropped in front of her.
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