06-15-06 . It begins at 40. A U-Mich Study says people consistently underestimate the sweetness of adulthood. “People often believe that happiness is a matter of circumstance, that if something good happens, they will experience long-lasting happiness, or if something bad happens, they will experience long-term misery,” says Peter Ubel, M.D. “But instead, people’s happiness results more from their underlying […] Read more...

05-27-06 . Think you know what makes you happy? Think again while you listen to this engaging interview. Read more...

01-16-06 . Keeping your resolve. John C. Norcross, a University of Scranton professor of psychology, offers the Los Angeles Times some research-backed good advice for keeping your New Year’s resolutions: • Believe in yourself. Self-efficacy is the psychological concept that [Stanford University psychology professor Albert] Bandura introduced in 1977 to describe how much someone believes he or she can […] Read more...

01-16-06 . Bad day? Take two fluffy kittens and call me in the morning. Researchers at Emory University say that looking at pictures of cute baby animals could give you a lift. Functional magnetic resonance imaging showed that cute images stimulate the centers of the brain associated with pleasure, arousal and positive emotion. “Some evidence suggests the activity there is greater when the stimulus is ‘neotenous,’ which […] Read more...