Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Kristina Lerman
Have you ever felt like everyone else has so much more to be thankful for? Check your Facebook or Instagram feed: Your friends seem to dine at finer restaurants, take more exotic vacations and have more accomplished children. They even have cuter pets!
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- Written by: Dr. Brenda Davies
Friends encourage and support each other in difficult times and generally make a positive impact on each other's lives. However, they're also willing to confront and constructively . So let's take a look at how you can deal with conflict and with saying those things that your friend might not want to hear.
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- Written by: Liz Entman
When making food choices when we’re with friends, we tend to want to match characteristics that others can measure or rank, such as size or price, but feel free to go our own way on things like flavor or shape, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Aimée La Fountain
Breakups happen to friends, too. Here’s how to find closure, while preserving your heart and dignity.
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- Written by: Melissa De Witte
To understand why people succeed or fail, look at their circle of friends. Like it or not, says economist Matthew Jackson, people’s fates are closely connected to their human networks.
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- Written by: Walter Ling, MD
People are meant to live in communities. It is our nature; it is in our genes and in our jeans. Being connected with other people is crucial to our happiness.
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- Written by: Zenith Henkin Gross
Relationships are quite different from the engaged-married-live-together-forever lockstep. The romantic friendship is a new feature in the relationship landscape of most conventional Americans, though not unknown in other cultures around the world.
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- Written by: Michele Berger
Researchers have discovered a connection between Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram use and decreased well-being.
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- Written by: Jade Boyd
Your chances of forming online friendships depend mainly on the number of groups and organizations you join, not their types, according to a new analysis of six online social networks.
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- Written by: Bert Gambini
Social media sites can make us feel left out—and can actually inhibit intelligent thought, research shows. A new study takes a critical look not just at Facebook and other similar platforms, but at the peculiarities of the systems on which they operate.
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- Written by: Belén López-Pérez
Imagine that someone you care about is procrastinating in advance of a vital exam. If he fails the test, he will not be able to go to university, an eventuality of major consequence in his life. If positive encouragement doesn’t work, you might reverse strategy, making your friend feel so bad, so worried, so scared, that the only strategy left is that he starts studying like mad.
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- Written by: Sandra Knispel
Strong sibling bonds can offset the negative effects of parental strife, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Sam Dresser
In 1906, the young Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung received a collection of essays from none other than the founder of psychoanalysis himself, Sigmund Freud.
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- Written by: Katherine Jegede
Whether your relationships are as wonderful as you wish them to be or you feel that there is room for improvement, using metaphysical methods to manage and sustain them is as rewarding as is it empowering.
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- Written by: Rick Hellman-University of Kansas
It takes more than 200 hours before someone can be considered a close friend, according to a new study that explores how long it typically takes to move through the deepening stages of friendship.
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- Written by: Nicola Jones-University of Warwick
New research suggests we can “pick up” good and bad moods from friends, but not depression. “We investigated whether there is evidence for the individual components of mood (such as appetite, tiredness, and sleep) spreading through US adolescent friendship networks..."
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- Written by: Andy Henion, Michigan State University
Among older adults, friendships are actually a stronger predictor of health and happiness than relationships with family members, research shows.
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- Written by: Amanda Abrams, YES! Magazine
Avoiding Trump supporters only increases our already dangerous polarization. Here’s how to really listen and find compassion.
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- Written by: Marcus Harrison Green, YES! Magazine
While there is no cure for dementia or Alzheimer’s, studies suggest strong social ties can help ward off the diseases’ advance. The Momentia movement uses strong social ties to ward off the effects of Alzheimer’s and dementia.
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- Written by: Nora Caron
Toxic relationships can drain emotional and spiritual energy, often beginning in times of vulnerability. Recognizing these unhealthy connections is crucial for regaining peace. This article explores practical steps to break free from toxicity, including a powerful energetic exercise to sever ties and reclaim personal power.
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- Written by: Paul Levy, Senior Researcher in Innovation Management, University of Brighton
We’ve been warned about the dangers of “frolleagues”, the friends we have at work that often fill the void left by having too little time for an external social life. As far back as 2008, Linkedin claimed that: “47% of the UK’s web users are mixing their social and professional lives by accepting networking invitations from ‘frolleagues’
