Researching Happy

Ever wondered how brain mechanisms might contribute to resilience?🧠 I spoke with A/Prof @SanneRooij at @EmoryUniversity about her recent Nature Mental Health paper investigating the neural mechanisms that promote resilience following trauma. Fascinating, difficult work!

Positive Psychology: you've got to hear about what Aristotle said about happiness! Greek philosophy 💪 Aristotle: "Knowing God is the highest good" Pos psych: Yep so it's just eudaimonia and hedonia .... Thank you Dean @jennfrey for an insightful conversation on @ResHappyPod

Two cornerstones of Positive Psychology that the rest of Positive Psychology never recognised... @PaulTPWong describes the fundamental elements of his model of existential positive psychology - which insists that the positives in life cannot exist apart from negatives and that authentic happiness grows from pain and suffering Full episode coming soon on @ResHappyPod

Have you ever thought about wellbeing as a foreign language? 💬 Ep 15 of Researching Happy with Prof @DrLindC from @UniMelb coming tomorrow. I know lots of people in my network will have been hugely influenced by Lindsay's work, he is 'food for thought' personified!

E.12 A wellbeing science repository for government, business, and community with @Work_Life_You is now live! WATCH to hear my alternative title for the incredible service that @WhatWorksWB do for the world podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s…