Happiness (3)
- Creating Passionate Users: Angry/negative people can be bad for your brain
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Everyone's favorite A-list target, Robert Scoble, announced the unthinkable a few days ago: he will be moderating his comments. But what some people found far more disturbing was Robert's wish to make a change in his life that includes steering clear of "people who were deeply unhappy" and hanging around people who are happy.
Tags: brain, happiness, health, psychology, article - view - bharath - 11/18/2009 - 00:55 - - -
- Creating Passionate Users: Fine-grained treats = user happiness
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In an article called "Make Yourself Happy", author Maja Storch explains that personal happiness has two components: short-lived/immediate and long-term/habitual. "Short term pleasures create a stirring of emotions that psychologists refer to as positive affect", she says,
Tags: design, happiness, marketing, psychology, article - view - bharath - 11/18/2009 - 00:45 - - -
- Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy? | Video on TED.com
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Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.
Tags: brain, happiness, psychology, ted, video - view - bharath - 11/14/2009 - 11:05 - - -
