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Dads Just Want to Help
My late father was a generous and kind man, but often morose. He was troubled about matters large and small, be they the fate of the world or the water in the basement. I remember two
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Edward Diener, Psychologist Known as Dr. Happiness, Dies at 74
Edward Diener, a playful social psychologist who was nicknamed Dr. Happiness for his pioneering research into what defined contentment, died on April 27 at his home in Salt Lake City. He was 74. The cause was
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Ed Diener, Who Studied Happiness, Dies
The founding editor of APS’s Perspectives on Psychological Science journal, he received the APS William James Fellow Award in 2013.
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Pandemic Got You Down? Psychologists Suggest Time Travel — Sort of.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could peek into the future to reassure ourselves? That’s not actually possible, but there is a psychological technique for regulating emotions that employs this idea. It’s called “temporal distancing,”
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Making Nice: How Giving and Gratitude Can Rebuild Connections and Break Down Barriers
The act of giving can help those in need even as it improves the giver’s own well-being.
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Laurie Santos Says Self-Care Doesn’t Have to Be Selfish
Laurie Santos, a psychology professor at Yale University and host of The Happiness Lab podcast, is a leading expert in positive psychology, a relatively young field. Since she began teaching “The Science of Well-Being” in 2018, it
