This is the third year that Ryan Niemiec has prepared us for the Oscar award evening by nominating movies for positive psychology awards.
As co-author of Positive Psychology at the Movies and scientist at the VIA Institute, Ryan is perfectly placed to suggest the positive psychology awards for the movies of 2011.
Monsters are born, not made: the latest round in the debate about criminal responsibility questions the very existence of intuitive morality… The US neuroscientist Sam Harris claims in a new book that free will is such a misleading illusion th…
Physical activity is potentially as effective as many drug interventions for patients with existing coronary heart disease and stroke, suggests a review of evidence.See it on Scoop.it, via Radical Compassion
A dying cancer patient who worked at a Dutch zoo returned to say goodbye on Wednesday. Lying in a hospital bed placed in the giraffe habitat at Rotterdam’s Diergaarde Blijdorp, the 54-year-old man, identified as only Mario, waited for the animals …
Children who expect others to be aggressive are more aggressive themselves, new international research concludes.Professor Kenneth A. Dodge, who led the study, said:“When a child infers that he or she is being threatened by someone else and makes…
