Tag: happiness
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Feelings Contagious?
Read more: Feelings Contagious?A study at PhysOrg.com–feelings catchable. [R]esearchers [have] found a correlation between an individual’s emotional state and those of the person’s contacts. In other words, it appears that you can catch happiness. Or sadness. (Via GoodTherapy.org)
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The Unfun of Parenting
Read more: The Unfun of ParentingNew York looks at parents who hate parenting in All Joy and No Fun. From the perspective of the species, it’s perfectly unmysterious why people have children. From the perspective of the individual, however, it’s more of a mystery than one might think…
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Vacation Science
Read more: Vacation ScienceThe Boston Globe looks at the science of taking a good vacation. For psychologists and behavioral economists, vacations are a window into the still only dimly understood mystery of human pleasure, a field known as hedonic psychology. Their research, along with other work on prototypically pleasant (and unpleasant) experiences, has begun to yield a portrait…
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Change Your Mind, Change Your Brain
Read more: Change Your Mind, Change Your BrainAnother in the Google lecture series, this one from scientist-turned-Buddhist monk, Matthieu Richard, author of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill.