Category: Positive psychology
Lesson: Happiness can help protect your mind and body Before the growth of positive psychology, most psychological research focused on people’s bad experiences. It was well known that negative …
Lesson: How to measure happiness So now we’re clear what we mean by ‘happiness‘. But how do researchers measure it? Since it’s subjective wellbeing we’re interested in, it makes …
Lesson: Happiness is pretty big-picture Most of the research on happiness refers to subjective wellbeing* (SWB), sometimes called hedonic wellbeing. Here’s what researchers generally agree about SWB: It’s somewhat …
Last week I reviewed a book about the happiness ‘problem’ – the reality that although (US) incomes have doubled in the last 50 years, people are no happier. In …
The current issue of PsycCRITIQUES* reviews the film The Pursuit of Happyness from a positive psychology perspective. According to reviewer Ryan Niemiec, it stacks up pretty well. If you …
Why is there so much talk these days about positive psychology – where did it all start? Positive psychology is the scientific study of: – The pleasant life – …