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Psychology of Satisfaction and Happiness
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The Psychology of Satisfaction and Happiness is a study and understanding of human behavior.
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Mid-Life Blues
Researchers confirmed recently what a lot of people are feeling — the mid-life blues. Researchers from Great Britain and the U.S. analyzed data of more than two million people and spanning 35 years. They analyzed them for depression, anxiety, h...
Positive Psychology and Depression
Could positive psychology techniques help reduce the effects of depression? That was the theory leading to a series of preliminary studies by renowned psychologist Martin E. P. Seligman a few years ago. Seligman and his team wanted to know if they co...
Happiness and Friendships
When it comes to friendships, is quantity or quality better for your overall well-being? Researchers have demonstrated convincingly that friendships matter when it comes to happiness. In fact, some studies have suggested that the number of friends wa...
Happiness in Simple Things
Simple things make us happy. That deceptively simple and obvious observation has now been backed up by research conducted last year in England at the University of Nottingham. Researchers wanted to compare the happiness “levels” of lotter...
Happiness: Bottom-Up or Top-Down?
Does a combination of positive events and circumstances result in happiness or does a happy mindset result in positive circumstances? Researchers have struggled with that question and it’s an important one. Many self-help books tell us that if ...
Intrinsic Goals and Happiness
When it comes to goals, what you pursue and how you pursue them can make an enormous difference in your overall well-being. In the past several years researchers have studied what many of us know intuitively — money or the pursuit of money prob...

