Denise Clegg

The Positive Neuroscience Project has announced the recipients of the 2010 Templeton Positive Neuroscience Awards, $2.9 million given to 15 new research projects at the intersection of neuroscience and positive …

Research shows we are more likely to sustain positive change by changing actions and patterns than by improving external circumstances. But that assumes we do them. Stephen Schueller is the …

Is It More Fun To Be a Scientist or an Artist? is the title of Professor Richard Gregory’s final publication. Professor Gregory, one of the world’s leading researchers on perception …

The stories we tell weave moments, days, and years into a meaningful sense of life. Researchers have found that the way we tell those stories about our own lives is …

When we chose the theme of relationships as a topic for PPND this month, I asked myself, what is true love? I would describe myself as a (covert/genuine/tentative-but-rational … Heathcliff!!) …

The International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) World Congress this June was an inaugural success, attracting more than 1500 people from 52 countries, and widely covered in the press. In his …

Yesterday, the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center announced the Templeton Positive Neuroscience Awards and a new research initiative aimed at understanding how the brain enables flourishing. Supported by a …

Chronic stress has been linked to many health disorders, including depression, heart disease, cancers, and Alzheimer’s disease. But the stress response engages a number of adaptive, complementary systems fine-tuned to …

In February, PPND announced our first ever contest. We asked readers to submit a photograph that captured the meaning of love. Dave further inspired our contest by offering the top …

How do you want to feel in your life? In your work? Doug Newburg interviewed hundreds of world-class performers, including athletes, business leaders, artists, and surgeons, to find out what …

Love changes the brain. In general, change in life correlates with physical change in the brain made possible by neural plasticity. The human ability to learn and adapt is king …

Several years ago, my mother gave me The Soul of Money by Lynn Twist, and it is one of the best gifts I’ve received. In the book, Lynn presents a …

Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel outlines five principles for this new science of mind. In this context, I like to think of character strengths as old good habits–correlating to strong …

This final segment of a MAPP Summit poster review series covers two projects that explored positive psychology and peak performance — the relationship between mind-body performance by Elaine Tarantin O’Brien …

Part III of the MAPP Summit poster series covers 2 projects that explored positive psychology in stories — strengths in the oral legends of Vanuatu by Virginia Millar and creation …

Part II of the MAPP Summit poster series includes studies of family savoring by Trecia Davis, appreciating the strengths of students in the bottom 80% by Christine Duvivier, positive psychology …

What do corporate superstars, Vanuatu elders, parents of teens and Nobel Laureates all have in common? Strengths, meaning, and engagement. These were just four of the poster subjects presented during …

Fear and panic are not great external forces; they are powerful internal ones, generated deep in the brain. George Valliant notes, “negative emotions are often crucial for survival—but only in …

Your brain has a mind of its own – a cartographer. Every action, thought, memory, habit, talent, and trouble is recorded in the firing pattern of neural networks in your …