The professional youth field is very focused on the idea of low self-esteem being a driver of so many of young people's problems. Young people do bad things...

If only I got this sooner I need not had bothered with my philosophy degree! Thought this info graphic was worth sharing though.

As they say, money does not buy you happiness but poverty buys you nothing. What is the best way to spend money to increase your happiness? It may depend, i...

Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with my perennial interest in the psychology of political thinking. Certainly, in these ever more turbulent po...

Everyone's so busy these days that it is easy to think you need to schedule time to have fun. But be careful about how you do that, said Selin Malkoc, a tim...

Researchers have found that when a person rates their current mental health as 'positive' despite meeting criteria for a mental health problem such as depres...

A recent study of relationships has found interesting predictors of infidelity within married couples. Read the surprising findings here.

In training and lectures I discuss how depression can be side-stepped. Rather than over thinking, which is strongly related t depressive episodes, I encoura...

I am a big fan of Prof Dan Gilbert's research on happiness. In what must come to be regarded as a classic paper, he along with Elizabeth Dunn and Timothy Wi...