Happiness, or subjective well-being, was measured on a birth-record-based sample of several thousand middle-aged twins using the Well-Being (WB) scale...
What is compassion? And how did it evolve? In this review, we integrate 3 evolutionary arguments that converge on the...
Conventional wisdom has regarded low self-esteem as an important cause of violence, but the opposite view is theoretically viable. An...
An overview of self-related superiority biases in social comparison is presented. Included are false consensus, false uniqueness, pluralistic ignorance, illusory...
As a social species, humans rely on a safe, secure social surround to survive and thrive. Perceptions of social isolation,...
Humans often sacrifice material benefits to endorse or to oppose societal causes based on moral beliefs. Charitable donation behavior, which...
Past work has documented and described major patterns of adaptive and maladaptive behavior: the mastery-oriented and the helpless patterns. In...
This study examined relationships between mindfulness and indices of happiness and explored a five-factor model of mindfulness. Previous research using...
This study investigated the possibility that inducing a state of self–compassion would attenuate the tendency for restrained eaters to overeat...
In two longitudinal studies, the authors examined the direction of the relationships between trait gratitude, perceived social support, stress, and...