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		<title>Does money bring happiness? (v2.0)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
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We&#8217;ve looked at this topic before.  Since then, I&#8217;ve written an essay on the relationship between income and well-being.  Although there has been a huge amount of work, the answer is not clear.  There isn&#8217;t a yes/no answer to this question, unfortunately, and it depends on many different things.  To explain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why should happiness boost the immune system?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
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There&#8217;s an apparent paradox in the research on positive emotions, and how they relate to the immune system, something that doesn&#8217;t make sense on first inspection.  But like so many things in psychology, I think the answer has something to do with sex.
I was quite surprised to find out how much research there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flowers = Happiness? The emotional impact of plants</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
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In positive psychology, most theories of positive emotion have focused on discovering their relative costs and benefits to humans.  These theories, to a greater and lesser degree, see positive emotions as being evolved adaptations to our environment.  Greater mood brings wider though-action repertoires, allowing us to build our resources (1), they regulate our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five things everybody needs to know about materialism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
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&#8220;The things you own, end up owning you&#8221;
- Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
I&#8217;ve seen Fight Club about 58 times.  It&#8217;s my favourite film.  I love it so much I even had the above quote engraved onto the back of my iPod.
In the film, Brad Pitt&#8217;s character Tyler Durden is a pretty heavy anti-consumerist.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mental time travel for happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
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A recent experiment has just discovered that time travel can make you happy. Great Scott!  I&#8217;m not talking about actual time travel, of course, but mental time travel; using your brain to do something that, at the moment, only us humans can do &#8211; simulate and predict future events.
Mental Time Travel (MTT) can be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Mind]]></category>

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Music has a remarkable ability to conjure up strong emotions in people.  It can cheer you up, bring you down, and in the case of boybands, cause severe anger and disgust.  And it&#8217;s old; some scientists believe music even predates language, this based on flute-like instruments dug up in France, believed to be over 50,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to be Happier &#8211; Free ebook!</title>
		<link>http://generallythinking.com/blog/how-to-be-happier-free-ebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
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Here&#8217;s a free ebook for download &#8211; How to be Happier.  And you don&#8217;t even have to trade in your email address to get it!
It&#8217;s based on an earlier post on this blog, also entitled How to be Happier.  It&#8217;s one of the most popular articles on this whole website,  but at over 4,000 words [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Success-Enhancing Behaviours that Good Moods Bring You</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
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Just like Santa Clause, happiness brings gifts with it too &#8211; and you don&#8217;t have to be good all year to get them!  In the last three articles, I&#8217;ve discussed a paper arguing that happiness leads to success, through a better career, better relationships and better health.  This works in part through behaviour &#8211; positive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Happiness Lead to Success? Part 3: Health</title>
		<link>http://generallythinking.com/blog/does-happiness-lead-to-success-part-3-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
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This series is discussing the idea that not only does success bring happiness, but happiness also brings success.  Previously, we found that happiness helps people to have better careers and better relationships.  Today, we&#8217;ll see that they also have better health, too.
The authors of the paper put the question this way: &#8220;Is happiness associated with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Biswas-Diener on happiness, strengths, and &#8216;incubators&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://generallythinking.com/blog/robert-biswas-diener-on-happiness-strengths-and-incubators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Davies</dc:creator>
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Robert Biswas-Diener is a big name in positive psychology research.  He&#8217;s sort of the Indiana Jones of positive psychology; he travelled around the world, through rich countries and tribal cultures, investigating happiness in these varied places.  Rumour has it he took a whip and a hat along with him, although I can&#8217;t confirm this.
Anyway, he&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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