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What Your Favorite Movie Treat Says About You
Parade: Joanne Chen is the author of The Taste of Sweet: Our Complicated Love Affair With Our Favorite Treats. Her Sweet Sleuth blog appears on Parade every Wednesday. Summer is almost here! And with it
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The business case for happiness in the workplace
The Globe and Mail: Forget spreadsheets, swot analysis and risk management; the latest topic on the business school agenda is happiness. Those academics who research the topic prefer to classify it a bit differently, however.
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Exploring Stanley Schachter’s Legacy
Psychological scientist Stanley Schachter (1922-1997) is credited with conducting innovative research on eating behavior from the perspective of social psychology. And his externality theory of obesity — which posits that non-physiological external cues has
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Want to be happier and live longer? Protect green spaces
Scientific American: Central Park almost didn’t exist. When it was first proposed, no comparable urban green space could be found in the whole of the United States—and it seemed unlikely that one would arise on
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Clinical Psychological Science. The Frequency and Impact of Exposure to Potentially Traumatic Events Over the Life Course Christin M. Ogle, David C. Rubin, Dorthe Berntsen, and Ilene C. Siegler
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Happiness is the best medicine
Salon: We’ve all experienced downward spirals, in which dark emotions lead to destructive behavior that damages our health, strains our relationships, and leaves us feeling even worse than when we started. Wouldn’t it be nice
