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Loneliness can spread to others, researchers find The Washington Post Updated: 12/10/2009 01:35:05 AM PST Loneliness is like a disease — and what's worse, it's contagious. Although it may sound counterintuitive, loneliness can spread from one person...
Tags: John Cacioppo, Nicholas Christakis, social networks, Monterey, Loneliness, Social psychology, Social network, Nicholas A. Christakis, Affect, Emotion, Happiness
Tired of hearing about all those military suicides? It just keeps getting worse and no one seems to have a clue how to stop the horror. Are you feeling news fatigue coming on, with compassion exhaustion and depression close behind?
Tags: Martin Seligman, positive psychology, Barbara Ehrenreich, Philadelphia, Nickel and Dimed, Stress, Optimism, Happiness, Ehrenreich
There are currently, 591 guest(s) and 36 member(s) that are online...Weekends provide a different spectacle for those living around the much revered Hati Dunga in Chang Gidaphu, Thimphu. From afar it appears as if Spiderman is making his way up the steep...
Tags: Bhutan, Thimphu, Gross National Happiness, Economic indicators, Education, Economic ideologies, Economy of Bhutan, Applied ethics, Politics, Password, The Nose, Comment, Hospitality Recreation, Ministry of Health, Accountability, Happiness, Rock climbing, Climbing, Grade, Locomotion, Index numbers, Mountaineering, National accounts
The book is a collection of interviews with female business leaders we read about in the press. How these women developed the skills needed to get to the top is a great read for anyone, especially a young woman starting out today. What piqued my interest,...
Tags: Walnut Creek, Positive mental attitude, Personal life, Happiness, Positive psychology
When people see a scowl, they think it's a man; when they see a smile, they think it's a woman, according to new research. One study found that faces with lowered eyebrows and tight lips (angry expressions) were more likely to be identified as male. Faces...
Tags: Ursula Hess, female face, Canada, Quebec, Emotions, Fear, Eyebrow, Happiness, Anger
Released on Nov.10, the book also discusses the idea that the secret to a beautiful moment is to simply be engrossed in a single thing rather than multi-tasking, and to slowly savor the flavor of food rather than gobbling it down. It further introduces...
Tags: beautiful moment, Taiwan, Taipei, Carpe diem, Zen, Time, Hospitality Recreation, Moment, Religion Belief, Happiness
His Holiness the Dalai Lama was joined Thursday on stage by three of the world’s foremost psychologists and neuroscientists for a forum on “Science of Mind” at Sydney’s Mind and its Potential Conference. Over the course of two and a half hours the four...
Tags: Australia Tibet Council, New Zealand, positive psychology, Tibetan, Dr. Martin Seligman, Marc Hauser, Sydney, Auckland, Religion and science, Martin Seligman, B. Alan Wallace, Dharamsala, His Holiness, 14th Dalai Lama, Happiness
This is a true-life story of a baby whose mother died at childbirth - the boy has been surviving on the milk of other mothers. The baby boy Charles of Michigan is now 10 months old and his sit-in Moms have not allowed him to feel the loss of his own mother....
Tags: childbirth, nursing time, sit-in mothers, humanitarian, Detroit, Midwifery, Infant, Happiness, Breastfeeding, Infancy, Human development, Human Interest, spread happiness
In October Tony Curzon Price and Thomas Ash replied to Peter Johnson's piece presenting Karl-Heinz Brodbeck’s critique of the utilitarian defence of the charging of interest. Here, Peter Johnson argues that they approached the question from quite different...
Tags: Bentham, Peter Johnson, United Kingdom, London, Classical liberalism, Ethics, Social philosophy, Utilitarianism, Utilitarians, Jeremy Bentham, Happiness, Normative ethics
In anticipation of a "miserable" old age, young men are more likely to engage in risky health behaviors such as binge drinking, Irish researchers said. Dr. John Garry and Dr. Maria Lohan of Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, said young men...
Tags: old age, young men, Northern Ireland, health behavior, risky health, United Kingdom, Belfast, Binge drinking, Positive mental attitude, Alcohol abuse, Personal life, Alcoholic beverage, Drinking culture, Happiness, Positive psychology