Jennifer Aniston will be starring in a movie about Positive Psychology. The movie is expected to be called “Counter Clockwise,” and Aniston will play Harvard Professor Ellen Langer studying how to turn back the clock on aging. In 1979, Ellen Langer undertook a study in which she put elderly men into a setting that made them think …
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The approaching Memorial Day weekend marks, for us Americans at least, the official start of the summer season. And summer just might be the season of positive psychology. Beautiful, long days that allow for outdoor activities into the late dusk hours. The laughter of children playing baseball in the street. Festivals celebrating everything from art …
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Do Not Take the Contemplative Panic!
Skiing for the first time in my life earlier this year, I was offered by my wonderful Italian ski instructor a new positive psychology construct I want to share with you. Carlos was nearly as old as me but he had been skiing since he was six, and so had over 50 years’ additional expertise. …
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People in Little Boxes on Wheels
by Sulynnby Sulynn“Hey Em, don’t you think this traffic jam is cute?” “Huh?” “What do you think God sees when He looks down? He must be so amused that people queue in little boxes on wheels like ants in a line every morning …” Yep 🙂 that caught her imagination, and soon she was happily telling her …