Mar 3
Many Paths to (Un)Happiness

This is a great piece of bittersweet creativity from lizstless. Just click on it once to expand it, then click on the ‘+ all sizes’ link top LHS of the image to make it large enough to read.

Thanks to Hearistic for the link.

Mar 2
FREE Positive Psychology Journal

It’s not often that you get something for nothing, particularly top quality scientific papers. However, you can now download ten Dec 2009 papers from some of the best-known Positive Psychology researchers including Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ed Diener, Antonella Della Fave and the UK’s Stephen Joseph. See the Table of Contents below. Thanks to Ingrid Brdar for the link.

Table of contents Full text
Ingrid Brdar

Editorial

pp.201-201

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The Promise of Positive Psychology

pp.203-211

pdf
Ed Diener & William Tow

Well-Being on Planet Earth

pp.213-219

pdf
Ruut Veenhoven

World Database of Happiness Tool for Dealing with the ‘Data-Deluge’

pp.221-246

pdf
Randy Larsen

The Contributions of Positive and Negative Affect to Emotional Well-Being

pp.247-266

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Kennon M. Sheldon

Providing the Scientific Backbone for Positive Psychology: A Multi-Level Conception of Human Thriving

pp.267-284

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Antonella Delle Fave

Optimal Experience and Meaning: Which Relationship?

pp.285-302

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Todd B. Kashdan &, Patrick E. McKnight

Origins of Purpose in Life: Refining our Understanding of a Life Well Lived

pp.303-313

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Ingrid Brdar, Majda Rijavec & Dubravka Miljkovic

Life Goals and Well-Being: Are Extrinsic Aspirations Always Detrimental to Well-Being?

pp. 317-334p

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Stephen Joseph

Growth Following Adversity: Positive Psychological Perspectives on Posttraumatic Stress

pp.335-344

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Márta Fülöp

Happy and Unhappy Competitors: What Makes the Difference?

pp.345-367

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Feb 19
How Coke spreads a little happiness…


Thanks to http://twitter.com/dannyfine for the link

Feb 1
Science of Happiness – Short Documentary

Here’s a great 25 minute documentary about the science of happiness, featuring Harvard’s Dr Daniel Gilbert (“Stumbling on Happiness”), Dr Angela Clow from the University of Westminster and my favourite,  Newcastle University’s Dr Daniel Nettle (“Happiness – The Science behind your Smile”).

Thanks to CoachFu for the link

Jan 26
Cash to spare? How you spend it affects your happiness

not enough shoes by Lauren CloseHere’s a link to my January contribution to Positive Psychology New Daily . Research just out suggests that how you spend your money affects your well-being, and that you’d be better off  (psychologically-speaking) by considering experiential purchases rather than material ones.  There are several reasons for this, for example, people tend to make unfavorable comparisons when they buy material goods, and the positive feeling you might get from buying them wears off very quickly. With experiential purchases, the feel-good factor lasts far longer.

Fortunately, if you’re a shopaholic, you may be able to fool youself into thinking about material purchases as if they were experiences, and in this way derive some longer-lasting benefit from them!

Image courtesy of Lauren Close

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