Get a Ph.D. in Happiness

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April 9, 2007

Who doesnâ€™t want to be happy? Turns out you can now get a Ph.D. in Happinessâ€¦Check this article from The New York Times:

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1606395,00.html

I also found these interesting…
“The New Science of Happiness” from Time Magazine:
http://tinyurl.com/3353kz

Dilbert’s formula for happiness:
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/03/happiness_formu.html

Finding utopia on a wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia

Sign me up…

clipped from www.time.com

Getting Serious About Happiness

Studying happiness is hard. What one man loves another loathes. One woman’s
joy is another’s junk. Social scientists, therefore, have generally left the
contemplation of smiles and satisfaction to poets and philosophers. But
that’s changing. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a leading expert on well-being, is
establishing what he calls the world’s first Ph.D program focusing
on positive psychology and the analysis of happiness, at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif. “Even though the
things that make people happy seem ephemeral and immaterial, they are the
most important things in life, and they have not been studied very
seriously,” says Csikszentmihalyi, a professor of psychology and management and author of Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience.

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Comment Number:: 1
Written by:: psychology schools » Get a Ph.D. in Happinessâ€¦
Posted on:: April 9, 2007 at 3:05 pm

[...] David Pescovitz wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpton positive psychology and the analysis of happiness, at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif. â€œEven though the things that make people happy seem ephemeral and immaterial, they are the most important things in life, … [...]

Comment Number:: 2
Written by:: Mike Gandy
Posted on:: July 14, 2008 at 12:22 pm

Interesting now you can get a PH.D. in the study of Happiness. To me happiness is such a vague term that has no real definition. How would someone determine a state of happiness.

Comment Number:: 3
Written by:: LOVE
Posted on:: December 9, 2008 at 4:23 pm

From what you’re saying, looks like happiness only hurts others. I know that when we are happy, it is because another is suffering.

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