Happiness

'Would I be happier if I moved?' Retirement status and cultural variations in the anticipated and actual levels of happiness

Should one give up the comforts of home in exchange for more leisure opportunities or a desirable climate? The present research examined the anticipated and actual levels of happiness among non-retirees and retirees in the US and Korea....

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Why Are We Happy?

Dan Gilbert Harvard professor and author of Stumbling on Happiness presents his research findings from his studies on happiness and happiness interventions some of which you may try on yourself.

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Change Your Mind Change Your Brain

Change your Mind Change your Brain Matthieu Ricard a researcher of happiness and author of Happiness: A Guide to Life's Most Important Skill talks to Google employees on how happiness is a basis for success and good leadership....

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How to increase and sustain positive emotion: The effects of expressing gratitude and visualizing best possible selves.

A 4-week experimental study (N = 67) examined the motivational predictors and positive emotion outcomes of regularly practicing two mental exercises: counting one's blessings (?gratitude?) and visualizing best possible selves (?BPS?). In a control exercise participants attended to the details of their day....

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Would I be happier if I moved? Retirement status and cultural variations in the anticipated and actual levels of happiness.

Should one give up the comforts of home in exchange for more leisure opportunities or a desirable climate? The present research examined the anticipated and actual levels of happiness among non-retirees and retirees in the US and Korea....

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Happiness and despair on the catwalk: need satisfaction well-being and personality adjustment among fashion models.

According to self-determination theory well-being and healthy personality development depend on the fulfillment of three basic psychological needs: autonomy relatedness and competence. However various contextual features can interfere with need satisfaction and undermine well-being....

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Albert Ellis: Unsung hero of positive psychology.

The contributions of Albert Ellis to the understanding of human happiness including his suggestions for living a happier life have not been represented in the field of positive psychology. This article presents Ellis?...

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The mediators of experiential purchases: Determining the impact of psychological needs satisfaction and social comparison.

Once basic needs are satisfied the relation between income and subjective well-being is small and materialism leads to diminished well-being....

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Two traditions of happiness research not two distinct types of happiness.

In an earlier paper (Kashdan Biswas-Diener & King 2008) we outlined a critique of the distinction being made between eudaimonic and hedonic forms of happiness. That paper seems to have had the desired effect in stimulating discourse on this important subject as evidenced by a number of responses from our colleagues....

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Back to the future: the effect of daily practice of mental time travel into the future on happiness and anxiety.

The ability to project oneself into the future has previously been found to be related to happiness and anxiety. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the causal effect of deliberate mental time travel (MTT) on happiness and anxiety....

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