The Digest guide to ... happiness
10 years of the Research Digest
You can will yourself happier. Nathaniel Hawthorne likened happiness to a butterfly, "which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." Poetic but probably wrong according to recent psychology research. A study earlier this year found that people who made a conscious effort to improve their mood while listening to upbeat music felt happier afterwards than those who just listened passively.
Happiness breeds success. It's obvious that success in love and work makes most people feel happier, but there's also evidence that the ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs
A design for life
As the average age of the population goes up with people surviving many years more than their allegorical three score years and ten, the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of senile dementia will rise too. Many people can suffer symptoms for many years and yet live independent lives or at least with minimal care intervention, so it is critical for designers and manufacturers to take this into account if their products are to have usability in this group and help not hinder users.
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Adam Glasgow and Peter Higgins of Swinburne University of Technology, in Hawthorn, ...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - May 7, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Can you will yourself happier?
"Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
A key question for people hoping to improve their well-being is whether it is counter-productive to focus too hard on the end goal of being happier. Philosophers like John Stuart Mill have proposed that it is - he wrote that happiness comes to those who "have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness." A pertinent study published in 2003 by Jonathan Schooler and his colleagues (pdf) supported this idea: participants who listened to mus...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs
Journal Alert: Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 26(1), 2013
Conclusion A number of suggestions forimproving services are identified and discussed in the context ofcurrent service policies and procedures.========================================================================*Pages: 14-25 (Article)*View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=CCC&DestLinkType=FullRecord;KeyUT=CCC:000312650600003*Order Full Text [ ]Title:Treat me Right, Treat me Equal: Using National Policy and Legislation to Create Positive Changes in Local Health Services for People with Intellectual DisabilitiesAut...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - January 17, 2013 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs
