Tag: happiness
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Married With (or Without) Children
Read more: Married With (or Without) ChildrenA survey reported on the Well blog shows fidelity as criteria #1 for a happy marriage. But what about children? As an ingredient to a happy marriage, kids were far from essential, ranking eighth behind good sex, sharing chores, adequate income and a nice house, among other things. Only 41 percent of respondents said children…
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Money v. Happiness
Read more: Money v. HappinessPsychCentral: Money Impedes Our Ability to Enjoy the Little Pleasures in Life, says study. Simply seeing a picture of money — which appears to prime our brains, increasing the concept of money at a level below awareness — seems to impede our ability to enjoy life’s little pleasures.
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The Wait for Happiness
Read more: The Wait for HappinessFrom telegraph.co.uk: Happiness begins at 50 claims new research. Variables such as having young children, being unemployed, or being single did not affect age-related patterns of well being. The research showed that levels of stress, worry and anger all dropped significantly in the fifties and levels of happiness and enjoyment increased. Rather listen than…
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Your Brain on Love
Read more: Your Brain on LoveA study shows scans of love-struck brains look the same in China as they do in the West. Regions of the brain related to addiction and even mental illness light up on the scan when a person sees a photo of his or her beloved…[New] scans showed that love lights up the brain in the same…
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Happiness and Stuff
Read more: Happiness and StuffFrom PsyBlog: Six Psychological Reasons Consumer Culture is Unsatisfying re why stuff doesn’t make you happy. Unless… [T]hinking of material purchases in experiential terms helps banish dissatisfaction. Try thinking of jeans in terms of where you wore them or how they feel, the mp3 player in terms of how the music changes your mood or outlook,…