Showing posts with label happiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happiness. Show all posts
Monday, July 08, 2024

Our well being influences our mitochondrial biology.

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I pass on the abstract from Trumoff et al (open source) below. The bottom line is that our experienced well being correlates with with hig...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

The Happiness Gap Between Left and Right

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 I want to pass on a few clips from a recent Thomas Edsall essay , followed by a condensed version of the longer piece provided by Chat GPT ...
Friday, May 17, 2024

Evolutionarily conserved neural responses to affective touch transcend consciousness and change with age

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Interesting work from Charbonneau et al. in macaque monkeys on the affective (gentle, pleasant) touch pathways that in humans use a differe...
Friday, February 23, 2024

Using caffeine to induce flow states

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I pass on this link to an article in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (open access) and show the Highlights and Abstract of the art...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Awe as a Pathway to Mental and Physical Health

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Reading this open source review from Maria Monroy and Dacher Keltner leaves me feeling substantially more mellow! Their abstract, followed ...
Wednesday, November 02, 2022

Well being increases with diversity of social connections.

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From Collins et al. :  Significance The link between social connection and well-being is well-documented: Happier people tend to spend more...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Neural synchronization predicts marital satisfaction

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From Li et al. :   Significance Humans establish intimate social and personal relationships with their partners, which enable them to surv...
Friday, May 27, 2022

Experiential appreciation as a pathway to meaning in life

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I have resumed cruising journals' tables of contents after a lapse due to shifting my attention elsewhere , and just came across this in...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

The cultural evolution of love in literary history

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An interesting article from Baumard et al. in Nature Human Behaviour: Since the late nineteenth century, cultural historians have noted th...
Wednesday, March 09, 2022

Genes for loving nature.

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From Chang et al .: Nature experiences have been linked to mental and physical health. Despite the importance of understanding what determi...
Monday, February 28, 2022

Seven Habits That Lead to Happiness in Old Age

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I want to point to this self-help article by Arthur Brooks in The Atlantic, part of his 'How to Build a Life' series. It's bott...
Monday, February 14, 2022

How to want less

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I've just enjoyed reading through an article by Arthur Brooks , "How to want less" in The Atlantic, which is adapted from his ...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

NPR's "Joy Generator"

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Try this antidote if you have the Sunday blahs.
Monday, June 21, 2021

Giving help to others may increase your life span.

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An interesting analysis from Chen et al. :  Significance Social support is a key contributor to mortality risk, with effects comparable in...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Useful Delusions

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I want to pass on to MindBlog readers some background information on the recent book " Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the S...
Thursday, March 25, 2021

Measuring happiness in small steps.

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I find this Brook's self help essay - that I came across while browsing the news during this morning's coffee - to be a nice brie...
Friday, January 29, 2021

Experienced well-being does increase above incomes of $75,000/year

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A research report from Matthew Killingsworth that contradicts a generally accepted result of past research:   Significance Past research...
Monday, November 23, 2020

Your brain is not for thinking.

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Lisa Feldman Barrett,the author whose book has prompted me to take a mini-sabbitical from MindBlog to do a period of study, has an Op-Ed pi...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Nature's lessons for a more kind society.

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I recently came across this 2009 MindBlog post... relevant to our times. Here is a re-post ( this link to the original post takes you to so...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Why have we become more comfortable and less happy over the past 40 years?

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Arthur Brooks offers another article in his biweekly series on "How to Build a Life," pointing out that we haven't gotten hap...