Published: February 28, 2011
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Conventional wisdom says that if you idealize the person you marry, the disappointment is just going to be that much worse when you find out they aren’t perfect. But new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, challenges that assumption; people who were unrealistically idealistic about their partners when they got married were more satisfied with their marriage three years later than less idealistic people. [continue reading…]
Published: January 20, 2011
How can they not be? Would it be too obvious for me to state that positive emotions are good for your health at any age 😉
The notion that feeling good may be good for your health is not new, but is it really true?
We all age. It is how we age, however, that determines the quality of our lives
-says Anthony Ong of Cornell University author of a new article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The article reviews the existing research on how positive emotions can influence health outcomes in later adulthood. [continue reading…]
Published: November 12, 2010
People spend 46.9 percent of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing, and this mind-wandering typically makes them unhappy. So says a study that used an iPhone Web app to gather 250,000 data points on subjects’ thoughts, feelings, and actions as they went about their lives.
The research, by psychologists Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert of Harvard University, is described this week in the journal Science.
“A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind,” Killingsworth and Gilbert write. “The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost.” [continue reading…]
Published: October 5, 2010
Choices and behaviors influence long term happiness, despite individual genetic and personality traits, a study finds. Bruce Headey (Melbourne University), Ruud Muffels (Tilburg University) and Gert Wagner (DIW and Technical University Berlin) analyzed data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey, a series of yearly interviews of adult and youth household members from 1984-2008. [continue reading…]
