Happiness is a topic we have touched on before in this series and will continue to do as we proceed. There is one simple reason to explain why we have and will focus so much on happiness – we are all interested in it. More specifically, I’m willing to assume that everyone reading these words…
The ratio of positive to negative experiences One of the more intuitively obvious markers of well-being is the experience of positive emotions, events, and interactions. Essentially, positive experiences will make us feel good, and the more positive encounters or moments we have, the more positive emotions we will feel. Against this backdrop, many researchers…
There is a long-established tradition in psychology for encouraging what has been termed as disclosive writing. For many years, studies investigating the effectiveness of such writing tended to ask participants to write about traumatic or emotionally upsetting events over a specified period of time, typically three or four days. The logic behind this approach is…