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Kaizar Campwala
Last Edit:
Jun 17, 2008 - 9:00 PM PDT
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Top Topics:
Health (10), Psychology (10), Sci/Tech (10), Business (2), Global Economy (1), Education (1), Corporate Governance (1), World (1), Wellness (1), Primary School (1)
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Kathryn Britton (4), Sherri Fisher (2), Bridget Grenville Cleave (2), The Truth About Money (1), Dave Shearon (1), Happiness (1)
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Opinion (5), Review (5)
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Training the Mind Changes the Brain
() Whenever we talk about positive interventions, we are assuming that people are malleable. William James wrote about intentional activity to change habits in ways that make ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Awe and Elevation
() Keltner and Haidt (2003) characterize awe as an experience of vastness and accommodation. Vastness is not hard to understand. We feel it when we look at the stars, when we see ...Posted by Leo Romero -
The Truth About Money and Happiness
() Positive Psychology is not without its critics who wonder why we need to have empirical data that something works if it seems to work fine without knowing about constructs and ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Caring and sharing in business: Do we practice what we preach?
() One of the most exciting aspects of positive psychology is its scope for application - not only is it appropriate in therapy, counselling and coaching, it's relevant in fields ...Posted by Leo Romero -
The Perils of Pollyanna
() Optimism, a positive emotional base, hope, happiness, a strengths orientation and an appreciative inquiry approach to improvement -- these things work. But, they don't ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Social Contagion: Spiral Up or Spiral Down?
() Social contagion is a term for moods spreading from person to person. We are physically constructed to make this possible. Daniel Goleman in Social Intelligence (2007) writes ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Appreciative Inquiry and Strengths: Positive Psychology in the Special Education Process
() Lindy is in third grade. She has recently participated in neuropsychological, cognitive and achievement testing to help her family and school understand whether she has a ...Posted by Leo Romero -
It's a rich man's world
() There's been a great deal of media coverage recently about whether or not money can make you happy, much of it inconsistent or unclear. This article in the UK's Telegraph on ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Better
() Dr. Gawande is a surgeon and a columnist for the New Yorker. In Better, he writes about performance in medical settings, in particular about what it takes to get better -- at ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Positive Psychology - It's So Much More Than Happiness
() The recent backlash against the "Happiness Movement", as many journalists call it, presents a fine opportunity to note the differences between self-help and Positive ...Posted by Leo Romero
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