12 Ways To Spot A Liar At Work

Your boss tells you that “this change is for the best,” but as she speaks, you notice her stiff body posture and forced smile. Is she being honest with you?

Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things

Enron, Worldcom, Bernie Madoff, the subprime mortgage crisis. Over the past decade or so, news stories about unethical behavior have been a regular feature on TV, a long, discouraging parade of misdeeds marching across our screens. And in the face of these scandals, psychologists and economists have been slowly reworking how they think about the cause of unethical behavior.

We can’t all choose the way we die or how to say goodbye

Philip Gould’s deeply moving video suggests that we can take control of death, but is that always possible?

Closing cycles

One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through.

Is happiness the secret of success?

Scientifically, can happiness be an advantage?

The Optimism Bias

We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. We watch our backs, weigh the odds, pack an umbrella. But both neuroscience and social science suggest that we are more optimistic than realistic. On average, we expect things to turn out better than they wind up being.

Hitchcock’s Secret to Happiness

It’s a simple recipe for happiness. Eliminate all negative emotions, anything that creates bad feelings and distracts from the project at hand. Clear it all away, and what’s left? The space for creativity pure and simple. That’s happiness for Hitch.

What’s The Best Time of Day to be Creative?

Do you feel at your most creative early or late in the day? Now psychological research is examining whether there’s a best time of day for creativity, depending on the type of creativity and your natural rhythms.

30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”  Nothing could be closer to the truth.  But before you can begin this process of transformation you have to stop doing the things that have been holding you back.

Top five regrets of the dying

Βronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded their dying epiphanies in a blog called ‘Inspiration and Chai’, which gathered so much attention that she put her observations into a book called The Top Five Regrets of the Dying.

Who You Are on Facebook Is Probably Pretty Much Who You Are

A study finds that our personalities, from the physical world to the digital, are portable.

12 Happiness Habits for Busy People

You should never be too busy to smile, because creating happiness in your life does not take a lot of time.  You just have to do a few things right.

The Brain: 6 Lessons for Handling Stress

Take a deep breath. Now exhale slowly. You’re probably not aware of it, but your heart has just slowed down a bit. Not to worry; it will speed up again when you inhale.

Would You Kill One Person to Save Five?

Imagine you are a train-yard operator who sees an out-of-control boxcar running down a track that five workers are repairing. The workers won’t have time to get out of the way unless you flip a switch to change the car to another track. But another worker is on the second track. You have just seconds to make a decision: let the five workers die — or kill the one. What do you do?

Excessive internet use linked to depression, research shows

Leeds University study finds people classified as internet addicts are more likely to be depressed than non-addicted users.

Measuring Happiness Now Could Predict Risk of Death in the Future

It’s no secret that social factors, like having a good support system in place around you, are linked to longevity. A related factor, being happier throughout life, has also been associated with reduced risk of death. The problem with the happiness-longevity relationship is that most studies have asked patients to rate their happiness looking back over their lives.

Ethical People More Satisfied With Life

University of Missouri economist Harvey James finds a relationship between life satisfaction and low tolerance for unethical conduct.

Twitter-Mining Captures Global Mood Patterns.

An analysis of mood patterns distilled from half a billion tweets has produced a civilization-scale picture of how moods rise and fall in tandem, over time and across the world.

Men and women differ in how they categorize the world.

New research suggests gender plays a role because men tend to organize the world into distinct categories whereas women see things as more conditional and in shades of gray

There’s only one way to change: Slowly, over time

Speak to any quality psychotherapist, fitness trainer, nutritionist, financial advisor, organizational consultant,—anyone in the change business—and they will tell you that the chief complaint of those trying to change their ways is, “Why does it have to take so long?”