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Happiness
The Economist: GDP is a useful measure. After all, nations with high GDP per head have more education, better health and longevity, and higher life satisfaction. I would never argue that we should replace GDP
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Why Powerful Men (Like Arnold) Cheat
Fox News: Another day, another political sex scandal. This time, it’s former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger acknowledging this week that he fathered a child with a member of his household staff more than a decade
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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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True Love May Wait—But Waiting Won’t Make You a Safer Lover Later On
Whether sex education focuses only on abstinence or teaches students about contraception and other topics as well, it all shares one main message: Wait. In abstinence-only, students are exhorted to wait for sex until they’re
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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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All in the Mind
BBC Radio: Hot chilli sauce and a computer game called Cyberball are tools in the lab of psychologist Kip Williams. He explains his research on ostracism to Claudia Hammond. Listen to the broadcast: BBC Radio
