In the May 11, 2009, issue of the New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell wrote an essay titled "How David Beat Goliath." The subtitle of the essay is provocative: "When Underdogs Break the Rules."
The essay was ostensibly about a California girl's basketball team from Redwood City coached by Vivek Ranadivé. Read More
I recently came across a survey - thoroughly informal - that has stuck in my head. The question was simple: "What do you think about while taking a shower?" The results lingered, like the smell of Irish Spring soap, because it was a rare example of me being more evolved than the typical respondent.
I read a terrific book this past weekend - In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan. It was a one sitting, no skimming, sorry it was done kind of book. As the title conveys, the book is a defense of food, which sounds strange. Read More
A working paper by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers was recently released by the National Bureau of Economic Research and is attracting attention in the media. Read More
In recent months, I have received several inquiries from those in the popular media about what positive psychology has to say to people who have lost their jobs. Read More
An important study was recently published by Laura Kubzansky of the Harvard School of Public Health and her colleagues. They looked at longitudinal data from a diverse sample of individuals from the Providence area, They goal was to investigate whether childhood personality characteristics predicted adult physical health. Read More
A criticism of happiness research is that it often relies on what a person says about his or her own happiness. Calling a self-report measure of happiness "subjective well-being" seems not to help much, because the critic then objects "Isn't that subjective?" The answer is that of course self-reports are subjective, meaning that they are from the respondent's own point of view. Read More
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Happiness Basics
Research on how to increase positive moods and capitalize on your strengths has proliferated lately thanks to the positive psychology movement, and has shed light on ongoing insights into personality, mood, and cognition.
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