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Pursuing happiness can make you feel worse
Times of India: They say that happiness shouldn’t be thought of as a universally good thing, and outline four ways in which this is the case. Indeed, not all types and degrees of happiness are
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Mind Reading: Positive Psychologist Martin Seligman on the Good Life
TIME: These days Martin Seligman, author of the best-selling book Authentic Happiness, is perhaps best known as a father of positive of psychology — the study of people’s strengths and virtues, rather than on pathological behavior.
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You’re Rubber, I’m Glue – How Can I Impress You?
Would you rather be a professor or his dependent student? We tend to think being a dependent person isn’t a good thing, but new research has found some positive aspects of dependency. An article published
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How to Fat Into American Life
Baseball and democracy – two things we’re proud to call American. Unfortunately, to immigrants, eating junk food is also associated with being a typical American. A study published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science
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Want to truly know yourself? Ask a friend
Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel: How well do we know ourselves? “It’s a natural tendency to think we know ourselves better than others do,” says Simine Vazire, an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis and
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Uomo: fare il macho è un mestiere difficile
TGCOM: Anche i machi hanno la vira dura. Anzi durissima: guadagnarsi la fama di “tipo tosto” è un cammino lungo e complicato, mentre è facilissimo, purtroppo, perdere il titolo dopo averlo conquistato. Tant’è vero che
