Category: positive psychology

This is a popular idea, has gotten good coverage, most recently in FastCo. Leaf Van Boven has been doing great work on this for years. (He was Gilovich’s graduate student – the FastCo article quotes Gilovich a lot because it’s based on a new review article by Gilovich & Kumar.)One of the things I want…

This is great work: “As expected, across these experiments, the researchers found that the more people smiled, the happier they reported being. But only some people. Surprisingly, for a section of the population, smiling actually reduced well-being. The more these people smiled, the less happy they were. This is like finding that there are some diners who, after consuming a…