by Graham Music | Dec 27, 2013 | Altruism, Poverty
After the giving and receiving. Materialism and happiness and tough lives This year in some circles we have seem a backlash against materialism. Typical is a new book by Robert Wolman called Stuffocation [1], arguing that stuff does not make us happy, but rather it is...
by Graham Music | Aug 5, 2013 | Stress
Happiness, friends and values bigger than ourselves As a few weeks of lazy holidaying beckons for some luckier ones amongst us, in this blog, the last for a while, I find myself thinking about that old chestnut, happiness again, and the Good Life, or Eudemia as the...
by Graham Music | Oct 21, 2012 | Mental Health
Oliver Burkeman in this Saturday’s guardian raised an interesting issue about happiness and selfishness. He quoted recent experiments by Berman and Small[1] which showed that when people are given a windfall, they feel happier if they are told that they have to...
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