Lancet Is Wrong: Happiness Does Affect Health. (Newser) – A major study in the respected Lancet medical journal made headlines earlier this month with a surprising assertion: Happier people don't live longer. But now three professors of psychology have combined for a rebuttal in the Los Angeles Times. "Happiness does matter for your health," write Ed Diener, Sarah Pressman, and Sonja Lyubomirsky. "A lot. " The findings in the Lancet were drawn from the ongoing Million Women Study in which women ages 50 to 69 were surveyed. The happiness factor is based on a single question, No. 306 of 316, in which women were asked how often they felt happy from "rarely/never" to "most of the time. " About 4% of the respondents have died so far, and the researchers drew their conclusions based only on those deaths.
That methodology is weak, write the professors, especially the use of one simple question, late in a long survey, to gauge happiness. The Science of Happiness | Positive Psychology. We all want to be happy, and there are countless ideas about what happiness is and how we can get some. But not many of those ideas are based on science. That’s where this course comes in. “The Science of Happiness” is the first MOOC to teach the ground-breaking science of positive psychology, which explores the roots of a happy and meaningful life.
Students will engage with some of the most provocative and practical lessons from this science, discovering how cutting-edge research can be applied to their own lives. Created by UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, the course will zero in on a fundamental finding from positive psychology: that happiness is inextricably linked to having strong social connections and contributing to something bigger than yourself—the greater good. The course’s co-instructors, Dacher Keltner and Emiliana Simon-Thomas, are not only leading authorities on positive psychology but also gifted teachers skilled at making science fun and personal. Commentary: “Enabling” Positive Financial Decisions. Until recently, parents looking for strategies on how to support a young person in early recovery had very few credible alternatives.
About the best a parent could hope for was cautionary but very non-specific advice about what NOT to do – like, “don’t enable”? But recently, a practical translation of a well-established behavioral research finding promises some new options for what a parent COULD do to support sustained recovery in their young person.
The story actually begins with basic behavioral research with animals, but later extended to human adults, children and yes, even adolescents. In a nutshell, the vast majority of learned behaviors develop and change in response to positive and negative consequences. These rewards and punishments are much more effective when they are provided right after the behavior – delayed rewards or punishments are not very effective in changing behavior. These facts should not be news to anyone – very basic stuff. A. Family Finds Comfort in Daughter's Photo Taken Minutes Before Her Collapse.
The family of a Massachusetts teen are taking solace in a moving picture of the teen taken minutes before she collapsed from a fatal brain hemorrhage. Casey Dunne, 16, was at field hockey practice on Friday when she collapsed suddenly due to a brain hemorrhage. The teen died hours later at a local hospital according to the teen's high school, Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts. Casey's father Matthew Dunne said the picture of their daughter has helped the family with their grief since it seemed to show her personality so clearly.
"It was very helpful because what my wife and I saw of her that afternoon was in the worst possible situation," Dunne told ABC News. "To see that photo of her that day and that happy and that joyous and fabulous was a very uplifting. " Dunne said that Casey, who was born on July 1, had always loved everything about the Fourth of July celebrations.
A funeral will be held for Casey on Wednesday. Airline Hygiene Exposed. Introduction Germs are everywhere. That’s what we were told in school, but how does this connect with our everyday experiences? There is perhaps no better setting to demonstrate this than where people from around the world come together as they travel between cities, states, and countries. To find out just how dirty the airports and airplanes that we rely on for business and vacation really are, we sent a microbiologist to take samples from five airports and four flights. The general consensus from this study: Airports and airplanes are dirtier than your home (NSF, 2011). Surprisingly, it is the one surface that our food rests on – the tray table – that was the dirtiest of all the locations and surfaces tested. Since this could provide bacteria direct transmission to your mouth, a clear takeaway from this is to eliminate any direct contact your food has with the tray table.
Results To summarize, here is a ranking of the dirtiest places and surfaces on airplanes and at airports: Discussion. New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy. Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here. You get all kinds of happiness advice on the internet from people who don’t know what they’re talking about. Don’t trust them. Actually, don’t trust me either. Trust neuroscientists. UCLA neuroscience researcher Alex Korb has some insights that can create an upward spiral of happiness in your life. 1) The Most Important Question To Ask When You Feel Down Sometimes it doesn’t feel like your brain wants you to be happy.
Believe it or not, guilt and shame activate the brain’s reward center. Via The Upward Spiral: Despite their differences, pride, shame, and guilt all activate similar neural circuits, including the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, amygdala, insula, and the nucleus accumbens. And you worry a lot too. But guilt, shame and worry are horrible long-term solutions. What am I grateful for? Know what Prozac does? Boom. Sum Up. Be More Successful: New Harvard Research Reveals A Fun Way To Do It.
We all want to be more successful. But everything you read probably sounds like a lot of work. Isn’t there a scientifically proven method that’s a little more… fun? There is. Shawn Achor is the bestselling author of The Happiness Advantage and for years at Harvard he studied exactly that: happiness. He gave an extremely popular (and, in my opinion, the all-time funniest) TED talk. And his ideas even attracted the attention of Oprah Winfrey, who filmed an interview with him. What’s so special about Shawn’s work?
He did what a lot of researchers never do: instead of scrubbing the freak outliers from the data he aggressively studied them. He wanted to know what people with happiness superpowers do that we don’t. Here’s Shawn: Instead of deleting those people that are weirdos in the data what we do is we intentionally study them. Shawn believes (and his research shows) that you can do things to be happier. I gave Shawn a call to find out what he’s learned. 1) Success Brings Happiness? Sum Up Tags: 8 Negative Attitudes of Chronically Unhappy People. Learn More. The Strength Assessment & Profile Thrively offers the first and only online Strength Assessment developed specifically for children.
While most kids find it to be as fun as playing a game, our assessment also delivers real results. Our Team worked closely with two of California's seven board-certified pediatric neuropsychologists to create a kid-friendly test that explores 23 different strengths. As your children respond to questions, we learn more and more about how they think, act, and react, enabling us to develop detailed Strength Profiles and user-specific child and parent dashboards. As soon as your child completes the Strength Assessment, you gain access to an in-depth description of your child’s core strengths and how they may apply in the “real world.” Activity & Inspirational Video Streams It is imperative that children exercise and develop their strengths, and the earlier they start the better.
Activity Boards Social Circles. Gratitude Activities for the Classroom. Thanksgiving is the perfect holiday to help students cultivate an “attitude of gratitude.” And what’s more, research shows that it’s really good for both them and their teachers! Among other benefits, gratitude helps kids feel better about school and makes educators feel less emotionally exhausted. Need some ideas on how to bring gratitude into the classroom? Here are some easy-to-implement activities, many of which can be adapted to fit any grade level. Classroom Gratitude Book. Create a gratitude book to send home with a different child each week. Many thanks to Head-of-School Steve de Beer and all the teachers at Friends’ School in Boulder, Colorado, and social-emotional learning expert Kim Schonert-Reichl at the University of British Columbia for sharing their ideas with me!
Study Music Alpha Waves: Relaxing Studying Music, Brain Power, Focus Concentration Music ☯161. Battling back is part of the game | Christiana Care News. Nobody stays at their top performance all the time. Setbacks are a part of life, and they are often beyond your control. Learning how to battle back and working hard to overcome the obstacles in your way — this is what a top performance is all about. I like to stay focused on what is ahead, but in order to understand what I need to work on, I look back at the past season.
Last year I had a back injury and Lyme disease. To help with my back issues, the number one thing I had to work on was strengthening my core through weight training. One thing I have noticed is that if you have access to a strength coach, you will be ahead of the game. It always helps to have an expert give you a routine to ensure that when you are in the gym, you will know exactly what you have to do. I always try to get a full body workout, which includes lifting arms, legs, abs, and circuit training. A word of caution about weight training: If you lift with bad form, you will get hurt! 5-year-old's touching gesture feeds homeless man at Waffle House. The faith of a little boy was on full display at the Waffle House at the Prattville-Millbrook exit one night a few weeks ago.
It's the story of 5-year-old Josiah Duncan and his mom, Ava Faulk. "We saw a man who was dirty holding a bag with his bike outside," Faulk recalled. Josiah was so troubled by the man's appearance, he started peppering his mom with questions. "He's homeless," the little boy's mother explained. "What does that mean? " he responded. "And I said, ""Well, that means he doesn't have a home,"" Mom continued. Faulk wrote an email to WSFA 12 News about her son's actions, and it included many of the questions the young child had. "He didn't have any food," little Duncan explained. "He came in and sat down, and nobody really waited on him," Faulk explained. The man insisted on a cheap hamburger to start, but he was assured he could have anything he wanted.
"Can I have bacon? " Before the man could take the first bite, Josiah insisted on doing something. "The man cried. Edutopia | K-12 Education Tips & Strategies That Work. Presentations | Wardenburg Health Center | CU-Boulder.