We are so conditioned by the American dream that most people believe that their first and primary objective in life is to achieve happiness and success through their own strengths.   However, during the recent economic downturn, it has become incr…

Fifteen years after emerging as a major scientific movement, it’s clear that positive psychology — the study of what brings happiness and meaning in life — is not just a fad. The field is reaching new levels of breadth and depth: Havi…

Can you help you? Recent research by University of Illinois Professor Dolores Albarracin and Visiting Assistant Professor Ibrahim Senay, along with Kenji Noguchi, Assistant Professor at Southern Mississippi University, has shown that those who ask…

This profile on UC Berkeley Professor Dacher Keltner highlights his breakthrough research on the science of kindness and compassion. (Scientist proves that compassion is the workplace is beneficial to our well being.See it on Scoop.it, via Radical Com…