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Closet Pessimist? Challenge Your Negative Beliefs and Negativity Bias
Psychology of Happiness

Cure For  Pessimism? Challenging Your Negative Beliefs

Currently, I’m living with a housemate who is a pessimist. I pretty much told him so, but he rejected my words. Yet, the evidence states the contrary.  How to Recognize

Ignorance Diet, a woman with question mark face
Psychology of Happiness

Ignorance Diet: When Knowing Less Leads to Unhappiness

One of the most common myths about happiness is that there is a reverse correlation between knowledge and happiness. In other words, the more we know, the unhappier we become.

Happiness is boring
Psychology of Happiness

Happiness is Boring, Scientists Report

Happiness is boring, scientists claim, but not for the reason you might suspect. Rather the science studying happiness believe is that happiness is very predictable in terms of its positive

elusive happiness
Psychology of Happiness

Happiness is NOT Elusive: Here is Why

I can’t tell you how often I hear people say that happiness is elusive, impossible, and that we shouldn’t even try to be happy. People (and even happiness experts) state

Self-referencing bias
Psychology of Happiness

Why Self-Referencing Bias Prevents You From Being Happy

Self-referencing bias prevents you from being happy because it refers to a belief that you are unique and the center of the universe, so to say, just because you are

doomed to happiness baseline
Psychology of Happiness

Are We Doomed to be Unhappy? Happiness Baseline Theory

The happiness baseline theory states that there is a natural emotional state of well-being to which we return regardless of what happens in their lives. As such, good and bad

People Who Travel Are Better Human Beings
Psychology of Happiness

10 Years Rule: For Tourism, Traveling, And Happiness

The 10 Year Rule states that it becomes too much of a routine if you live longer than 10 years in one place. In contrast, a person stops looking at

Happiness Is Not Individualistic
Psychology of Happiness

Why Happiness is Not Subjective and Individualistic

Often, people tell me that happiness is impossible because it is subjective and individualistic experience. In other words, we are all different, we all want different things, we have different

young old self esteem
Psychology of Happiness

How Age Affects Self-Esteem, Especially in a Young Age?

Parents beware your kid’s Age Affects Self-Esteem. Look at the calendar and see when your children were born, as a small difference of a few months in a calendar can

history of happiness. an image of a newspaper burning hold by a person
Psychology of Happiness

History of Happiness: Lessons From The Past For The Future

Often, when talking about history of happiness, scholars like to state this or that persons contribution to the topic of happiness. However, perhaps even more important historical event that marked

How to Stop Worrying About Everything
Psychology of Happiness

Don’t Worry, Be Happy: The Happiness Formula

Did you know that the expression “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” originally comes from Indian mystic Meher Baba, but it is best known for Bobby McFerrin’s 1988 song with the same