With suicide ranking third as the leading cause of death in American youth aged 15-24, a new prevention program tested in Ohio schools has proven it can help teens overcome depression and thoughts of killing themselves.
Scientists, once again, point to those who have an optimistic outlook on life as being the people who age best. Dr Stefanie Brassen, the new study's author, said that successful aging came down to "the positivity effect".
Two social psychologists from UC-Berkeley, both avid basketball players themselves, recently analyzed 90 hours of televised pro basketball play. They looked at every team and every player in the league and concluded the teams that touch the most win the most -- and the individual players who touch the most perform the best.
It's no surprise that those who tend to see a rose's blooms before its thorns are also better at handling stress. But science has never been able to reliably associate optimism with individuals' biological stress response – until now. New research from Concordia University's Department of Psychology is deepening the understanding of how optimists and pessimists each handle stress. Results show that indeed the "stress hormone" cortisol tends to be more stable in those with more positive personalities.
Life is what you make it; so here's a debriefing on how to channel your positivity into manifesting the kind of life you want.
It was a quiet night at the Cheddar's Restaurant in Baytown, Texas that brought these two women together for a heaping serving of healing.
The mayor of Vilnius plans to install a huge screen on the town hall to broadcast a real-time happiness barometer that will monitor the mood of the Lithuanian capital, depending on votes sent in by citizens on their phones.
Instead of reaching for cookies or cake when stressed out, you might want some dark chocolate instead. New research from Australia has found that the polyphenols in dark chocolate increase calmness and contentedness.
Grandmas, by their very nature, don't want trouble. But 81-year-old SuEllen Fried of Prairie Village, Kansas, has defied that stereotype and brought her sweet, soft touch to prisoners behind the razor-wire walls for over 30 years. I am addicted to personal transformation, she told CBS's Steve Hartman. Fried started coming to Lansing Correctional around 1980 for what she thought would be a little volunteer work, but ended up committed to these guys — for life.
Today a high-level daylong special session on Happiness will be hosted in the United Nations General Assembly by the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, a nation judged by some to be the happiest in the world.
All 193 United Nations member states last year adopted a resolution decreeing March 20 to be the first International Day of Happiness. To celebrate, people all around the world are bringing happiness to others and talking about it on social media networks. The decree followed the first ever UN conference on Happiness and Wellbeing in July 2012.
60 percent of Americans who've reached their 100th birthday say they do not "feel old," and most point to positivity as the key to a long and happy life.
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