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Your Happiness Calendar for March 2022

Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you stay open and curious. To open the clickable calendar, click on the image below. (Please note: If you are having trouble clicking on calendar links with...

Published Mon, Feb 28 2022 6:52 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Happiness and Meaning Change As You Make More Money

“Humans think happiness is this one thing: You’re either happy or you’re not,” Jennifer Aaker says. Of course, it’s not so simple: New research conducted by Aaker and her colleagues not only challenges the assumption that happiness is binary but also...

Published Fri, Feb 25 2022 7:06 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Biology Prepares Us for Love and Connection

Humans are social creatures with a propensity to connect with others and to form relationships. Our relationships can be sources of fun, gratification, peace, well-being, obsession, love, pain, and grief. They inform the rhythms of our days, the work...

Published Thu, Feb 24 2022 4:28 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Help Teen Girls Cope With Stress

Adolescence is a stressful time in life. Teens have to navigate increased independence from their parents, new and more complicated peer relationships, and more demanding academics, all while managing radical changes in their brains and bodies. Not only...

Published Wed, Feb 23 2022 5:41 AM by Greater Good Articles

Moving Your Body Is Like a Tune-Up for Your Mind

Movement and exercise feel good, as you know if you’ve ever experienced a runner’s high, the restorative power of a pandemic afternoon walk, or a heart-pumping Zumba class. But what accounts for these benefits? The answer offered by science journalist...

Published Tue, Feb 22 2022 3:45 AM by Greater Good Articles

What Keeps Us From Electing a Woman President?

The United States has never had a woman president. Even though many Americans believe women are just as deserving as men when it comes to leadership, gender bias remains, making it hard for women to attain the highest office. Though stereotypes about...

Published Fri, Feb 18 2022 4:04 AM by Greater Good Articles

Five Reasons Why Intellectual Humility Is Good for You

Do you ever find yourself mulling over your beliefs and opinions, thinking about why and how you came to hold a certain conviction, perhaps even questioning whether you might be wrong? Or maybe you can remember a time when you’ve learned some new information...

Published Wed, Feb 16 2022 4:48 AM by Greater Good Articles

Three TV Series Showing Us How to Bridge Generation Gaps

With five generations in the workplace at once and six alive at the same time, our destiny as a longer-lived society and a much more multigenerational one is clear. What’s less clear is how well we’ll navigate this new terrain, particularly across lines...

Published Tue, Feb 15 2022 3:46 AM by Greater Good Articles

The Many Ways We Helped Each Other During COVID

When the pandemic first came to California and lockdowns were instituted, many of my neighbors set out to help each other. Some called elderly neighbors to be sure they were OK. Others collaborated with local restaurants to create a low-cost food delivery...

Published Mon, Feb 14 2022 4:28 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Your Relationship Can Expand Your Sense of Self

It’s common to want to become a better version of yourself. Much like the desires to eat, drink, and avoid harm, human beings also experience a fundamental need to learn, grow, and improve—what psychologists call self-expansion. Consider your favorite...

Published Fri, Feb 11 2022 4:35 AM by Greater Good Articles

Book Bans and Controversy in the Classroom? Sex Ed Teachers Have Been Here Before

I’m a sex education teacher, and I am worried. I’ve been watching the wave of book bans and legislation restricting what teachers can say in class roll out across the country—and I’m worried that we’re starting to treat other subject areas the way we...

Published Thu, Feb 10 2022 6:54 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Relationship Satisfaction Changes Across Your Lifetime

Are you happy with your romantic relationship? On Valentine’s Day, around anniversaries, and in the dark lull before sleep, maybe you’ve pondered this question. You might have thought about how you met your partner, what you’ve been through, and how they...

Published Wed, Feb 09 2022 3:48 AM by Greater Good Articles

To Resolve Conflicts, Get Up and Move

In 2006, I joined a group of about 40 peace experts in a small remote village in Poland called Kazimierz, a historic haven for Jews in a predominantly Catholic region of the world. There Andrea Bartoli, an accomplished peacemaker and devout Catholic who...

Published Tue, Feb 08 2022 4:13 AM by Greater Good Articles

Four Ways to Help Students Cultivate Integrity

Every generation faces challenges. For youth today, racial inequities, temptations from social media, and pressures to perform in school despite COVID-19 learning disruptions are just a few challenges that define their development. Schools can meet the...

Published Mon, Feb 07 2022 6:14 AM by Greater Good Articles

What Happened When I Taught Gratitude Practices to Nurses

I learned about the practice of gratitude when I was in recovery from an eating disorder. In my mid-20s, I was broadsided by anorexia and bulimia. Part of my recovery process was to keep a gratitude journal for a month. I was assigned to find three things...

Published Fri, Feb 04 2022 4:22 AM by Greater Good Articles

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