Is the waning of passion and satisfaction in romantic relationships inevitable or can the honeymoon period be sustained?...
Does the explicit attempt to be happier facilitate or obstruct the actual experience of happiness? Two experiments investigated this question using listening to positive music as a happiness-inducing activity....
This article analyzes various aspects related to overall happiness expressed by 99 people who make their living in the dumps of Leo´ n (Nicaragua) – a group that is difficult to access heavily stigmatized and living in extreme poverty....
Current conceptualizations of mental illness focus on assessing psychopathology. A balanced approach would assess strengths that individuals bring to coping with illness....
The study investigates the idea that feeling good and functioning well-being are regulated by two different mechanisms: hedonic and eudaimonic. At the state level it is assumed that happiness is a hedonic feeling typically experienced when life is easy or a goal is reached....
Bryant and Veroff (2007 Savoring: A new model of positive experience. Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) have proposed that savoring namely regulating the emotional impact of positive events by one’s cognitive or behavioral responses increases happiness....
A Book Review of What is this Thing called HAPPINESS? by Fred Feldman.
A Book Review of The search for fulfillment: revolutionary new research that reveals the secret to long-term happiness by Susan Krauss Whitbourne.
The last decade has witnessed an enormous increase in research examining the effects of mindfulness meditation. One of the basic assumptions guiding this research is that meditation ultimately makes people happier. In this article in two studies we tested whether meditators actually look happier....
There is growing support that money spent on experiential items increases an individual’s happiness. However there is minimal research on the causes and long-term consequences of the tendency to make experiential purchases....
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