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Just as there is no universal formula for treating the psychological conditions that plague us - depression, anxiety, stress - there's no one-size-fits-all trick to boosting happiness. In her recent book, The How of Happiness, Lyubomirsky aims to help joy-seekers find activities that are their best personal match. But for those who are better suited to technology than book-reading, she's just unveiled another tool, which is perhaps the ultimate sign that positive psychology has come of age: the "Live Happy" iPhone application, available free on iTunes...
...past 50 years, people with mental problems have spent untold millions of hours in therapists' offices, and millions more reading self-help books, trying to turn negative thoughts like "I never do anything right" into positive ones like "I can succeed." For many people - including well-educated, highly trained therapists, for whom "cognitive restructuring" is a central goal - the very definition of psychotherapy is the process of changing self-defeating attitudes into constructive ones...
Those with low self-esteem - precisely the kind of people who do not respond well to positive feedback but tend to read self-help books or attend therapy sessions encouraging positive thinking - didn't feel better after those 16 bursts of self-affirmation. In fact, their self-evaluations and moods were significantly more negative than those of the people not asked to remind themselves of their lovability. (See pictures of couples in love...
...you’re a child, 15 or 16 or 17 years old, and you’re helping your family to survive—well, what is a child in this context?” said Marie Louise Janssen, a lecturer on cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam who teaches a course called “The Commodification of the Human Body. “If it’s the difference between surviving and not surviving, who am I to say that you should not be allowed to help yourself...
...Facebook has maintained the pretense, as was noted in a Techcrunch blog post on the new privacy policies, that they want users to publicize more information in order to help differentiate between people with similar names, thereby making it easier to connect with friends...