The Science of Happiness
Sheltering-at-home with kids? These questions can help them, and us, focus on the good things in life.
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A pioneering psychologist reveals how three powerful emotions are the surest path to attaining your goals. Grit, the ability to persevere against all odds, is widely recognized as the key to success.
Filled with secrets from a therapist’s toolkit, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before teaches you how to fortify and maintain your mental health, even in the most trying of times.
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This much-needed book outlines clear and effective strategies to help you cope with the tension, anxiety, trauma and violence of modern living.
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Alzo Slade participates in an “Emotional Emancipation Circle,” an Afrocentric support group created by the Community Healing Network and the Association of Black Psychologists. It’s a safe space for Black people to share personal experiences with racism and to process racial trauma.
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72% of entrepreneurs are directly or indirectly affected by mental health issues compared to just 48% of non entrepreneurs.
The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021.
Although some 85 percent of Americans say they're pretty happy, the happiness industry sends the insistent message that moderate levels of well-being aren't enough: not only can we all be happier, but we practically have a duty to be so.
Can individual happiness and societal happiness increase? The science of subjective well-being—happiness, life satisfaction and positive feelings—has grown enormously in the last decade.
Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition to the book How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, Dr.
Do you believe that what you see influences how you feel? Actually, the opposite is true: What you feel—your “affect”—influences what you see, hear, smell, taste, and touch.