Stephanie Rosenbloom | NY Times, June 2015 A colleague recently returned from a trip to Europe with that unmistakable just-back-from-vacation glow. Striving to hold on to it for as long as possible, she deployed various strategies including placing her used boarding passes front and center on her desk, and leaving receipts from the TV Tower…
Are the People Who Take Vacations the Ones Who Get Promoted? Harvard Business Review, Shawn Achor June 2015 Too many people limit their happiness and success by assuming that taking time off from work will send a negative message to their manager and slow their career advancement. But new research, says that the exact opposite…
Eric Barker | TIME, May 21, 2015 Eric Barker writes Barking Up the Wrong Tree. People whose jobs allowed them to use their signature strengths — those qualities they were uniquely best at, the talents that set them apart from others — were consistently happier: We hypothesized that the amount of positive experiences at work (job…
M. Jun, C.K. Kim, J. Han, M. Kim, J.Y. Kim, 2014 Strong Attachment to Heroes: How Does it Occur and Affect People’s Self-Efficacy and Ultimately Quality of Life? This study looked at how our attachment to heroes affects our lives, if at all. Researchers specifically looked at how hero attachment, self-efficacy, and life satisfaction of…
Ioanna Roumeliotis | CBC News, April 2015 Psychologist and best-selling author Shawn Achor has made a career studying the science of happiness. “Scientifically, happiness is a choice,” Achor says. He explains that research has shown you can rewire your brain to make yourself happy by practising simple happiness exercises every day for three weeks. Texas-born Achor’s books…
SUCCESS Magazine, Shawn Achor April 2015 We often think that if we had more choices, it would be easier to change our lives. In fact, we dohave plenty of choices, but we don’t change. What we really need in our lives to make a positive change are fewer choices. In The Happiness Advantage, I wrote…
Marc Forster-Pert | CNN, April 2015 Forgotten why you went to the refrigerator? Struggling to concentrate on work and multitask at the same time? Join the club. Experts cite that eating well, reducing stress and physical activity are all ways to keep our brains sharp and functioning at top-notch speed. But in the same way…
Rachel Nuwer | Smithsonian, June 2013 A wealth of studies have examined the hypothesis that spending time outdoors boosts our well-being, but until now not much was known about how being outside affects what researchers call “momentary subjective well-being,” a fancy term for how you feel in-the-moment. Unless scientists follow participants around with a clip board asking…
Ian Alcock, Mathew P. White, Benedict W. Wheeler, Lora E. Fleming, and Michael H. Depledge This study examined how living in urban areas with more green space and urban areas with less green space affected participants’ mental health over the long term. The experiment was conducted over a period of five years, using panel data to…
Kimberly Yam | Huffington Post, March 2015 Image courtesy of Sherman Padgett A senior prank is often an opportunity for high school students to make some mischief. That’s why North High School Principal Sherman Padgett in Wichita, Kansas, wasn’t so willing to take a bucket that a student offered him last Wednesday. “No way,” Padgett…
