Psychology Today Blogs - The Good Life

When positive psychologists advocate a strengths-based approach, I hear it as an important correction to decades of interventions (in clinics, schools, and workplaces) that focused on problems and ...

I have been a college professor for more than thirty years, and an important part of my job is working individually with graduate students who are writing doctoral dissertations. Over the years, I ...

In the wake of the announcements of the 2008 Nobel Prize winners - which included no South Korean recipients - government officials in Seoul publicized an ongoing and ambitious program aimed at pro...

Last week I gave a talk on my campus about positive psychology in the workplace. I was pleased with how it went, although the questions were difficult. I am better at being conceptual than being pr...

In an earlier blog entry ("The Geography of Bliss"), I wrote about happy places--physical locales where people are likely to be happy. In this entry, I write about a related topic: happy days and h...

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people.--Gandhi
An important literature review was recently published in the Journal of Occupational and Enviro...

"Only the good die young." While this may have been true in the adolescent fantasies of Billy Joel, it does not square with the results of a recently-published study by Toshimasa Sone and colleague...

Can happiness be lastingly increased? It is clear that we can momentarily boost someone's sense of well-being (e.g., with backrubs, scoops of chocolate ice cream, or silly love songs), but one of t...

"I broke my nose in two places.""Really? You should stay out of those places."
There must be a positive psychology analogue of this joke, although I could think of none, and my Internet searches fo...

I am an occasional participant in a positive psychology listserve, Friends of Positive Psychology, which you can join at http://lists.apa.org/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A0=FRIENDS-OF-PP. It is an active listse...