Research Bites are 1-page summaries of positive psychology research. Many were papers assigned as reading in my Harvard Extension Psychology Masters program. Others I’ve found in my endless rabbit holes of searching for evidence-based skills.
Principle: Learning emotional competence makes your life better. Quote: “Not only can people improve their emotional competencies as adults, but learning to identify, understand, express, manage, and use emotions to…
Principle: Happiness practices like exprressing optimism and gratitude work better when you are intentionally trying to cultivate happiness and commit to it. Quote: “Happiness interventions are more than just placebos,…
Principle: In psychology research we measure both traits and states of people. Overall states are brief, specific occurrences and traits are enduring tendencies or dispositions. Quote: “Rather than attempting to…