I am in Queens, New York tonight. Tomorrow I am presenting my Positive Psychology Changes Lives workshop, and next to the hotel is a Spanish restaurant. Now Spanish food is not at all like Mexican or Central American food. I lived in South America, and have visited Central America and Mexico, but I’ve only been […]
In a recent review, Ed Diener and Micaela Chan (2011)* reported that people in the top range of happiness – that is, the top 25% or so – live longer, and by around four to ten years. That means, that if you can get to the top 25% in your happiness, you can expect to […]
Are thoughts real things? We think of thoughts as transient experiences that don’t have a real existence. They come, they go. But when we treat them as if they are real objects, we gain some control over them. Pablo Briñol and his colleagues in Madrid asked people to write down a thought and then either […]
