Psychologists Elizabeth Dunn and Lara Aknin, along with Michael Norton of Harvard Business School, report that the benefits of helping others "are evident in givers old and young in countries around the world, and extend to not only subjective well-being, but also objective health."
Date Posted: February 14, 2014
Categories: Happiness
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With Valentine's Day around the corner, you may be thinking of pairing up two friends for a date. If you follow your instinct to play Cupid, it'll pay off in happiness - not necessarily for the new couple, but definitely for you.
According to new ...
Feb 14
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
GOWhy do we Cry? This video attempts to help you understand why we cry when we are really happy or really really sad. Besides ...
Feb 13
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After 22 years of failed treatments, including rehabilitation, psychotherapy and an array of psychiatric medications, a middle-aged Dutch man decided to take an extraordinary step to fight his heroin addiction. He underwent an experimental brain ...
Feb 13
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BANGKOK - The popular 'selfie', a popular trend among many is now linked to mental and low self-esteem disorders.
Popular among the youngsters it is said to cause addiction and negative impact on them.
The Thai Mental Health Department has warned ...
Feb 13
Categories: Self-Love
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University of California, Berkeley, researchers have shown that chronic stress generates long-term changes in the brain that may explain why people suffering chronic stress are prone to mental problems such as anxiety and mood disorders later in ...
Feb 12
Categories: Stress Management
GOWhen you really think about it, kissing is an odd human behavior. You know, all the rubbing of our faces all over each other. So ...
Feb 12
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The death of Phillip Seymour Hoffman has sparked some strong and seemingly contradictory responses. What these reactions show is that many people find it hard to think of addiction as being anything except either a choice or a loss of free ...
Feb 12
Categories: Addictions
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There are few things more personal than one's aesthetic taste. When you really connect to a piece of art or music, it touches something deep inside. It moves you in a way that often escapes words. But what's going on in your brain when you are moved ...
Feb 11
GOThis short video presentation explains why we get butterflies in our tummy whenever we have to get up in front of an audience or when ...
Feb 11
Categories: Anxiety
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Keeping a marriage together takes effort. And care. And maybe even watching classic romance movies, like The Way We Were or Husbands and Wives. And this is because of the conversations such movies can start.
That's the finding from a study in the ...
Feb 11
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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In the mid-nineteen-seventies, the cognitive psychologist Ellen Langer noticed that elderly people who envisioned themselves as younger versions of themselves often began to feel, and even think, like they had actually become younger. Men with ...
Feb 10
Categories: Mindfulness
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Many children were among the victims of typhoon Haiyan, with one school in the Tacloban area of the Philippines losing 59 of its pupils. Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) psychiatrist Frederique Drogoul describes a mental health programme that will ...
Feb 10
Categories: Mental Health in Asia, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma ...
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Outgoing, conscientious, friendly people who are open to new experiences tend to be happier than those who are more shy, unadventurous, neurotic and unfriendly. It's easy to imagine why this might be so. Barely studied before now, however, is the ...
Feb 10
Categories: Happiness
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New research from psychologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst finds that while a majority of adults cite the ability to compete with friends as their primary reason for playing online casual video games, they report differing perceived ...
Feb 8
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Whether you're wondering what color to paint the office, or you're looking to redesign your retail space, the colors you choose can increase your chance of reaching your goals. Color greatly influences human emotion and behavior. If you're hoping to ...
Feb 8
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