A revealing study on this topic came out recently on the NYT. This is something I have been wondering about for years. Why are rates of depression soaring among young people? Face to face human communication, as opposed to communication with pixels (not communication with pixies, you could get in bigger trouble with that), seem to…
I had planned to make my book reviews unremittingly positive, after all it takes a lot of time and emotional energy to write a book, and then to have some stranger come along and criticise it…? Books are an author’s baby, and as with babies, they take over their lives. This is especially the case…
Measuring happiness is at least as difficult as catching rare and elusive butterflies. What kind of net should we use? We include a list of some of the most well known measures such as the Oxford Happiness Inventory (Argyle and Hill), the Subjective Happiness Scale (Lyubomirsky & Lepper), the Satisfaction with Life Scale (Deiner, Emmons, Larsen…
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