Positive Psychology Detractor Exorcised by Big Leap In his new book Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholia, Eric G. Wilson blends his experience as a sufferer of chronic sadness and…
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Florida State University researcher K. Anders Ericsson is best known for his work as the expert on expertise, studying top performers in fields as diverse as medicine, athletics, chess and…
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The strengths movement is gaining momentum in education. Kids are often very insightful about their strengths and those of others. Sometimes the people closest to them understand them least well,…
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It’s Not That Easy Being Green: The Treadmill of Sustainable Happiness During the Holidays and Beyond
‘Tis the season to give and get. This is the explicit message of the many advertisements that propel us into hypnotic holiday spending. Are your halls decked? Is your closet…
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Great Expectations: Using Your Anticipated Emotion For Learning and For Good
Neena is hoping to be back in college soon after a rather disastrous semester has left her “withdrawn/failing.” She has never been a stellar student, not even in elementary school.…
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Feel Better Faster, Learn More Effectively: Use Your Mood-Repair Tool Kit
If you’ve ever been unhappy, you would have benefited from a mood-repair tool kit. It could have helped you analyze why you were feeling miserable, for example, and helped…
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Jeff Peters “has been engaged in as many schemes for making money as there are recipes for cooking rice in Charleston, S.C.” When told by a constable that the next…
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Positive Psychology’s Seven-Up: New Year’s Resolutions for Back to School
The calendar says that January 1 is the beginning of the New Year, but for millions of U.S. school children and their families, the real New Year begins each September.…
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The Happy-Well: Positive Psychology Tips for Living Well and Longer
We are bombarded by science news every day that tells us what to eat, how to exercise, and what risk factors should worry us. Should we eat chocolate? Should we…
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I like to think of myself as a modern shopper. I browse online, add to my shopping cart, and my purchases are delivered to me. No crowds, no door dings…
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Applied Positive Education: Kids and Teachers for the Future
Institutions have many strengths. For one thing, they’ve been around awhile. For another, they are usually tied to our values and even reinforce them. But an institution can become “institutionalized”…
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Multiple Intelligences and Mindsets: Positive Approaches to Education
In 1993, then relatively unknown Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner published a book, Frames Of Mind: The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences. This book and its 2000 sequel, Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences…
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Tell Me Something Good: Applying Validated Positive Psychology Interventions
Does it matter whether we can identify the underlying mechanisms by which a positive intervention appears to work? Well, yes and no. In the short term it may be enough…
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Meet the Press: Anxiety and the Negativity Bias
It has been called a “marketer’s dream” and “just reformulations of the platitudes you’d gather if you spent a half-hour reading bumper stickers in the Whole Foods parking lot,” (from…
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Rewiring Your Remote Control Builds Character
Cash or credit? I handed over the plastic to the gas station attendant on the Garden State Parkway. It was very early on a Saturday and there was only one…
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Sherri Fisher, MAPP, M.Ed., CPBS, is an education management consultant, workshop facilitator, author, and coach specializing in learning and productivity solutions for students of all ages.