Browsing All posts tagged under »Happiness«

Happiness Equilibrium

June 14, 2010

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Which would make you happier:  winning the lottery or becoming paralyzed?   Stupid question, right? In a two-part study published in 1978, Brickman, Coates, and Janoff-Bulman compared lottery winners’  levels of happiness to a control group. They did the same for a group of paraplegics.  One year after the event—either winning a lottery or becoming… [Read more…]

How to Be Happier

May 10, 2010

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Happiness is a choice; anger is a tactic. Anger will have to wait for a future post.  This one is about happiness. So let me ask: would you do something that took less than a minute if that something would make you happier? Martin Seligman at University of Pennsylvania’s school of Positive Psychology has broken… [Read more…]

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