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The Real World Benefits of Expressing Gratitude

Gratitude: As Old as Animal Kind Gratitude may be an evolutionary component of human development, passed down for thousands of years according to sociologist Georg Simmel (Greater Good Magazine, n.d.). While we ...
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/ / Gratitude, Positive Emotions, Positive Psychology

The Fading Affect Bias in Pursuit of the Pleasant Life

Fading Affect Bias (FAB) The Fading Affect Bias, or FAB for short, refers to the cognitive phenomenon supported by research showing that memories associated with negative emotions tend to fade faster than ...
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/ / Fading Affect Bias, Flow, optimism, Positive Emotions, Positive Psychology

Brief History of Positive Psychology (Part 2)

This article is part of the course THRIVE 101: Positive Psychology History and Introduction Jump to Course Continued From Part 1... But Wait, There is Good News Remember, Csikszentmihalyi found that teenagers ...
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/ / Character Strengths, Flow, optimism, Positive Psychology, Resilience, well-being

Well-Being and the Five ‘Happy’ Lives

This article is part of the course THRIVE 103: Activating Strengths in Pursuit of Well-Being Jump to Course Well-Being and The PERMA Model Seligman (2011) argues that well-being is enhanced through thriving ...
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/ / Accomplishment, Happiness, Meaning, PERMA, Positive Emotions, Positive Psychology, Relationships, well-being

Brief History of Positive Psychology (Part 1)

This article is part of the course THRIVE 101: Positive Psychology History and Introduction Jump to Course It Didn't Start Off Very Positive I could not think of a better or more ...
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/ / Happiness, Positive Psychology

What I Learned Writing About 1,000+ Psychology Studies

If you go to get a doctoral degree in psychology, you spend five years reading a bunch of psychology studies. Or so I'm told. I've never gotten a psychology doctorate. But I ...
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/ / General Psychology, research

Awareness and Sympathy May Be Key Components of Guilt for Children

Guilt is a negative emotion, but it’s a negative emotion that to some extent is good. If no one ever felt guilt, the world would be a scary place indeed! One question ...
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/ / Children, Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Guilt

Good Sex and Good Friendships Make People Happier With Being Single

If you’re single, you’re certainly not alone. The US is in the middle of an ongoing shift toward one-person households. As I’ve written about before, single people commonly cite a variety of ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Happiness, Relationships, Sex

Sleep and Resilience Can Form a Virtuous Cycle for Teens

Resilience, or being able to bounce back from adverse events, is a useful skill to have – if we didn’t already know that, 2020 has certainly driven the point home! Psychologists know ...
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/ / Health Psychology, Positive Psychology, Resilience, Sleep, Teens

Study Identifies Three Types of Low-Risk Drinkers

When psychologists investigate people’s patterns of alcohol use, they often look at what happens when alcohol use becomes a problem. They consider questions such as what might predispose people to risky drinking ...
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/ / Alcohol, Behavioral Psychology, Clinical Psychology