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Positive Psychology “Oscars”: Countdown

Mar 7, 2010 6:20am

March 7, 2010By Ryan Niemiec - The countdown of the top 10 positive psychology films of 2009 is about to begin. These are films that both appeal to a wide audience and have important messages. Many are ......

Positive Psychology “Oscars”: Honorable Mention

Mar 5, 2010 6:10am

March 5, 2010By Ryan Niemiec - Is there any substance and meaning behind the choice of who wins an Academy Award? In an analysis of 1,132 films, Simonton found that the Oscars do matter; they provide meaningful ......

Is Positive Psychology at work?

Mar 3, 2010 7:21am

March 3, 2010By Amanda Horne - Last month I attended the 2nd Australian Positive Psychology Conference run by the Australian Positive Psychology Association (APPA) at Melbourne’s Monash University on 12-13 February. It came at the ......

Which Comes First? The Inspiration or the Well-Being

Feb 26, 2010 4:29pm

February 26, 2010By Bridget Grenville-Cleave - Inspiration, or more precisely the lack of it, strikes fear into the hearts of many students faced with an assignment or test, a blank sheet of paper and a ticking clock. ......

The Happiness Project (Book Review)

Feb 23, 2010 12:22pm

On an apparently meaningless bus drive home, Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany: “I am not as happy as I could be.” She also realized that the problem might not be the conditions of her life, per se, but with how she lived and perceived it. She wondered if...

The Spirit Level (Book Review)

Feb 22, 2010 6:51am

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, two English epidemiologists, have written a provocative book on how high levels of inequality in societies are harmful for everyone within them....

Tell Me Your Story

Feb 19, 2010 8:44am

February 19, 2010By Denise Clegg - The stories we tell weave moments, days, and years into a meaningful sense of life. Researchers have found that the way we tell those stories about our own lives is ......

How do Happiness and Positivity Do What They Do?

Feb 17, 2010 11:09am

How does happiness "work?" Here are three quick stories from my own life that have given me a hint about how happiness might create good things in life....

Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work (Book Review)

Feb 15, 2010 2:06pm

February 15, 2010By Margaret Greenberg - Researchers and practitioners seeking to bring positive psychology to the workplace have a new resource: the Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work* edited by P. Alex Linley, Susan Harrington, and ......

Becoming an Excellent Manager: Where to Start and 12 Clues

Feb 10, 2010 9:45am

Let’s assume you were just promoted into a management job. You know that you got the promotion because you were an excellent performer on your previous assignment, but it used your technical skills. You are worried that you do not have all the skills you need to be...