John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister wrote an essay for the Wall Street Journal titled For the New Year, Say No to Negativity. Tierney and Baumeister are authors of The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.
« negativity bias, it’s the universal tendency for bad events and emotions to affect us more strongly than positive ones. » Continue reading “Negativity Bias”
Heidi Grant wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled Stop Making Gratitude All About You. Continue reading “Stop Making Gratitude All About You”
Markham Heid wrote an article titled Why Your Brain Needs Idle Time. Continue reading “Why Your Brain Needs Idle Time”
Allan Richarz wrote an article for CityLab titled The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train Stations. Continue reading “The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train Stations”
Matt Ridley wrote an article titled Why Is It so Cool to Be Gloomy?
« Has the percentage of the world population that lives in extreme poverty almost doubled, almost halved or stayed the same over the past 20 years? Continue reading “Why Is It so Cool to Be Gloomy?”
Shahram Heshmat wrote an article for Psychology Today titled 6 Reasons Why We Enjoy Listening to Sad Music: The appeal of listening to sad music. Continue reading “the paradox of enjoying sad music”
Markham Heid wrote an article titled Why Your Brain Needs Idle Time: Some vital brain functions demand downtime. Continue reading “Why Your Brain Needs Idle Time”
