Their answer came in the form of an eight-week course called the Science of Happiness, designed to help students boost their ...

has been researching a set of eight skills and practices to help people increase positive emotions and decrease anxiety, even amid hard times. And she’s developed an online course to teach these ...

In a new study, people who experienced the widest range of positive emotions had the lowest levels of inflammation throughout their bodies. Lower inflammation may translate to a reduced risk of ...

For example, gratitude exercises have been studied by psychologists as a way to increase ... with positive psychology such as gratitude interventions can boost social and emotional well-being ...

And reflecting on positive past experiences doesn’t just boost your emotional intelligence by counteracting anxious feelings. It can also increase your resilience by increasing your sense of ...

However, positive emotions increase well-being not only at the individual level; they also promote greater collective well-being, for example, by enabling prosocial actions (Kushlev and colleagues ...

They found that when participants engaged in new activities, they showed better memory, more positive emotions, less boredom and had a sense that time moved more quickly. While the study focused ...