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Your Happiness Calendar for August 2023

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

Published Mon, Jul 31 2023 4:50 AM by Greater Good Articles

What Does a Human-Robot Relationship Look Like?

The little dinosaur robot blinks its big, blue eyes and stretches its neck. It tilts its head toward a human, who responds with a pat. The dinosaur closes its eyes in apparent contentment. But when it suddenly freezes, the human flips it over to check...

Published Thu, Jul 27 2023 5:44 AM by Greater Good Articles

What’s the Best Strategy for Supporting an Upset Partner?

When your romantic partner is feeling down or in pain, there are many ways for you to respond. Maybe you’ll try to distract them or tell a joke. Or, perhaps you’ll listen to them empathically or offer different perspectives on their situation. These are...

Published Wed, Jul 26 2023 9:30 AM by Greater Good Articles

Why Do People Succeed or Fail in Life? Your Answer Matters

Have you ever asked yourself “How did I end up here?” Wondered why you achieved some level of success while others you know have not? Or, conversely, struggled to understand why something bad happened to you, like losing your job or not getting the one...

Published Tue, Jul 25 2023 6:31 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Awe Can Help Us Through Tough Times

In early summer of 2021, I donned my disposable face shield, cap, and gown, and then entered the room of 85-year-old Ms. A. After 10 days, she was losing her battle with COVID-19, and the family was with her one last time. With her oxygen mask removed...

Published Mon, Jul 24 2023 9:24 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Avoid Post-Vacation Stress and Sadness

My family and I just got back from a week of “glamping” in the Shenandoah Valley at a Getaway house. It was great, our second year going. We visited Luray Caverns. Sat by the campfire and roasted s’mores. Hiked. Foraged for wild blackberries and just...

Published Wed, Jul 19 2023 5:22 AM by Greater Good Articles

How West Point Is Expanding Character Education

At the United States Military Academy at West Point, our object is not only to teach cadets to be tactically skilled officers, but also to develop character—the constellation of psychological attributes that contributes to positive moral, intellectual...

Published Tue, Jul 18 2023 6:15 AM by Greater Good Articles

Can Contact Reduce Prejudice Even When You’re in Conflict?

There is a long line of research showing that when we make contact with people who are socially different than us, we tend to feel less prejudice towards them. This is known as “the contact hypothesis,” and it has been proposed as a potential remedy for...

Published Mon, Jul 17 2023 9:09 AM by Greater Good Articles

Two Keys to Helping College Students Feel Like They Belong

A massive, Stanford-led study has found that a brief exercise addressing common concerns about belonging in college increased first-year completion rates on students’ local campus, especially for students in racial-ethnic and social-class groups that...

Published Thu, Jul 13 2023 5:47 AM by Greater Good Articles

Are People Really Becoming Less Ethical?

When we read the news, it’s hard not to get depressed about the state of the world. Stories of vitriolic politicians, unethical CEOs, and indifference to the suffering of others fill its pages, leaving us feeling like goodness and morality are nowhere...

Published Wed, Jul 12 2023 5:20 AM by Greater Good Articles

How to Protect Teens From the Risks of Social Media

One of the biggest concerns parents have is how to help their children navigate social media. It’s not surprising this is a question front and center in our minds. A recent Pew Research Center report found that over a third of teens say they spend “too...

Published Tue, Jul 11 2023 4:36 AM by Greater Good Articles

The Pandemic Hurt Teens. How Can We Help Them Recover?

Coming of age in the pandemic has been rough on a generation of teens. Many forces converged with normal developmental processes to create a perfect psychological storm: pre-existing mental health crisis, intrusive social media, political polarization...

Published Mon, Jul 10 2023 9:12 AM by Greater Good Articles

How Collective Trauma Can Hurt the Next Generation

Andrew Kim’s mind raced as he entered the sprawling South African hospital. It was 2017, and Kim, at the time a Northwestern University biological anthropology graduate student, was researching how a woman’s stress while pregnant can affect the mental...

Published Thu, Jul 06 2023 5:02 AM by Greater Good Articles

Why Midlife Is So Hard—Especially Now

The way my mom imagined it, midlife was going to be great: counting down days until retirement, spending winters in Florida and checking off destinations on her bucket list. But it hasn’t turned out that way. Instead of more time spent in Florida, she...

Published Mon, Jul 03 2023 5:39 AM by Greater Good Articles

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