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What comes before happiness? (Book Review) 22 Aug 2013 | 02:36 am
By Lisa Sansom - Convincing his sister Shawn Achor is the accomplished author of The Happiness Advantage and well-known for his TED talk about the happy secret to better work. His TED audience re...
How does mindfulness improve self-control? 20 Aug 2013 | 02:14 am
By Genevieve Douglass - Ego Depletion: Running on empty In a 2012 Swiss study, researchers Friese, Messner, and Shaffner tested whether a brief period of meditation would lessen the depletion eff...
The Science of Thriving: Online Conference in September 15 Aug 2013 | 12:14 am
By Editor K.H.B. - Lately we have been posting articles about what happened at the IPPA Third World Congress. This was a great event, but only 1200 people were able to be there. Dr. Heidi Halvors...
How Love Creates Health 13 Aug 2013 | 08:06 pm
By Shannon Polly - Love contributes to health. It doesn’t stop with counting blessings. It’s not abstract. It’s deeply physical. Barbara Fredrickson at IPPA Congress Let’s follow the argument m...
Should You Read Decisive? (Book Review) 8 Aug 2013 | 12:19 am
By Giselle Nicholson - In a nutshell, Yes. But if you’ve already read this book, you would smartly refuse to directly answer my question. You would recognize that this narrowly framed, binary questio...
How Wide and How Deep? 6 Aug 2013 | 11:43 pm
By Kathryn Britton - Somebody recently asked me, “What are the new trends in positive psychology?” It’s a hard question to answer because the field is now full of people with different research inter...
Profiting from the Positive (Book Review) 1 Aug 2013 | 07:32 pm
By Jeremy McCarthy - A spa scene Several years ago, as the spa director at the La Costa Resort & Spa, I managed one of the largest and most complex operations I’ve ever worked in. The spa was ma...
The Oxford Handbook of Happiness (Book Review) 30 Jul 2013 | 12:03 am
By Bridget Grenville-Cleave - “Happiness reminds us that ultimately this is a world of people, of families, of communities all alike – of human beings seeking the same thing. When we grasp this unive...
Three IPPA Tributes to Chris Peterson from Park, Fredrickson, Seligman 26 Jul 2013 | 08:58 pm
By Eleanor Chin - At the Third World Congress of the International Positive Psychology Association, Chris Peterson was on the minds of many as they went from event to event. Chris had, for example, b...
Hurricane Sandy, Utoya, Homelessness: Constructive News out of Loss 24 Jul 2013 | 10:49 pm
By Cathrine Gyldensted - Author’s Note for PPND Readers: I know that the majority of Positive Psychology researchers and practitioners are not great consumers of news. You are way too aware of the de...
