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Despite the wide appeal of two types of happiness, hedonia (elevated positive affect and life satisfaction) and eudaimonia (realizing your full potential and living a life insufed withmeaning), the evidence is lacking and we present a new approach (PDF)
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The greatest psychological health is proposed to be the result of both the absence of disorder and the ability to adapt to changing life circumstances—acceptance and psychological flexibility. In three studies, each with a different method (download daily diary study, longitudinal study, and interview-based study with Kosovo war survivors), we found support for the combination of no disorder and an accepting and open attitude to emotions, thoughts, and feelings in predicting the greatest health outcomes.
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Curiosity is important in the development of meaning in life (PDF)
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Evidence for an intriguing subset of people with social anxiety disorder engaging in atypical risk-prone, impulsive, approach behavior patterns (download DepAnx article and J of Anxiety Disorders article); stay tuned for the third paper still under review.
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Men and women differ in their experience, expression, and benefits of being grateful with implications for maximizing the effectiveness of gratitude interventions (PDF)
February 2007 - William Breen, the first graduate student in the lab, matched for an internship at the Medical University of South Carolina.
November 2007 - Read coverage about my work on gratitude in war veterans in The Washington Post
May 2007 - My collaborator, Dr. Michael Steger, was interviewed by FoxNews.com about our recent work on well-being and values (PDF).
April 2007 - Congratulations to Anjali Mishra who leaves to work with Dr. Robert Emmons in the Social-Personality Ph.D. program at the University of California-Davis.
March 2007 - Listen to my guest appearance on the March 24th broadcast of National Public Radio's "With Good Reason" . Send an email to listen to my guest appearance on the March 17th broadcast of The Tavis Smiley Show.
January 2007 - Read coverage in the January 7th New York Times Sunday Magazine article about Positive Psychology, "Happiness 101" . Listen to my appearance on the January 8th broadcast of National Public Radio's "On Point"