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Your health is where your head’s at
The Independent Online: Can your personality really reveal anything about your health? It sounds like the kind of psychobabble you would find in a teen magazine – along with how to choose the man, job
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Is Happiness Overrated?
The Wall Street Journal: The relentless pursuit of happiness may be doing us more harm than good. Some researchers say happiness as people usually think of it—the experience of pleasure or positive feelings—is far less
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More self-aware people quit smoking easier
CNN: How your brain responds to anti-smoking messages may be useful in helping to kick the habit, a new study in the journal Nature Neuroscience reports. “People who are more likely to potentially see the
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Psychological Science and Health Care Policy
Gerd Gigerenzer There are many areas of psychological research that inform the public, but few are more crucial than health care. Enter two reports — one about experimentally supported treatments in mental and behavioral health
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Happiness Gets Better With Age
Older people tend to be wiser, but did you know they tend to be happier too? A recent paper published in Current Directions in Psychological Science suggests this may be because older adults are better
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Money can motivate weight loss — for a while
MSNBC: Obese people might be more likely to lose weight if they have money riding on their success — but the pounds may creep back once the financial carrot is gone, a small study finds.
