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...otherwise be involved in,” Joselow said. Professor Tal D. Ben-Shahar, professor of the popular class Psychology 1504: “Positive Psychology,” gave the evening’s opening remarks. “A lot of what he talks about in Positive Psych and the spirit of Shabbat are similar,” Rohr said. “Taking time out to be with friends and family, to reflect.” —Staff writer Rachel A. Stark can be reached at rstark@fas.harvard.edu...
...feed off of each other’s good vibes. “Happiness is contagious,” Ben-Shahar says. “When you read happy thoughts, that very often reminds us of positive or happy things in our lives.” But current Positive Psych students who are not used to sharing their thoughts in such a forum, aren’t all supportive of the idea. “When we list our reasons to be grateful,” says Julia R. Ericksen ’09, “it?...
...tuxedo 4.) Someone asks a question in lecture—double shot it if they speak twice in the same lecture 5.) Somebody mentions they’re Pre-Med—body shot if they’re a humanities concentrator 6.) Somebody mentions Positive Psych 7.) Somebody mentions their summer home 8.) You see someone playing on an iPhone in class 9.) You see someone in class Facebook stalking someone you know—double shot if it’s you 10.) You see a red Longchamp or WIB canvas bag—double if you hear...
...minutes ‘til one, laptops click closed, backpacks zip open and jackets crinkle on. Professor Tal Ben-Shahar ’96 tries unsuccessfully to finish his thought, but many miss even that: They’re already pouring out of Sanders Theater, sizing up a Positive Psych lecture that’s not even over. Packing up before professors finish speaking is the norm in many of Harvard’s large lecture halls. Of course, a few of these early departures face a marathon dash to Vanserg and have earned the right to leave. Most, however...
Daniel Yankelovich's study New Rules showed how the self-fulfillment ethic, largely confined to the campuses in the late '60s, had pollinated much of America's culture by the late '70s, wafted along by a score of pop-psych books, from How to Be Your Own Best Friend to Passages and Your Erroneous Zones. By the late '70s, according to polls conducted by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, 72% of Americans spent a great deal of time thinking about themselves and their inner needs. "The rage for self-fulfillment," wrote Yankelovich, "... had now spread to virtually the entire U.S. population...