Happier, and Positive Psychology

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 24, 2007

LifeT­wo, the web­site focused on all aspects of midlife chal­lenges, from midlife cri­sis to midlife career change, is pre­sent­ing a “How to be Hap­py” week, based on the work of Har­vard Pro­fes­sor Dr. Tal Ben-Sha­har and his book “Hap­pi­er”. Dr. Ben-Sha­har teach­es Har­vard’s most pop­u­lar class, on Pos­i­tive Psy­chol­o­gy. Today is their Day 1: From…

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Placebo effect: why not more of it?

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 26, 2007

Senia writes a great arti­cle on How You Tell the Sto­ry of Your Life in Pos­i­tive Psy­chol­o­gy News Dai­ly. As part of the sto­ry, she men­tions a very fun study on the pow­er of the Place­bo effect. From Seni­a’s post: “In the Feb­ru­ary, 2007 issue of Psy­cho­log­i­cal Sci­ence, Langer and col­league Alia Crum report­ed that they…

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Mind & Life Institute

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 24, 2007 |

My wife and I were for­tu­nate to con­duct recent­ly a mind train­ing exper­i­ment, in the form of a breath­ing & med­i­ta­tion retreat, with some neu­ro­sci­en­tists and Adam Engle, Co-Founder and Chair­man of the Mind & Life Insti­tute (nice name, isn’t it?) The Mind and Life Dia­logues “start­ed in 1987 as an exper­i­ment to deter­mine whether a scientific…

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Brain Fitness Carnival Number 3

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 19, 2007

Great Brain Fit­ness Car­ni­val Num­ber 3 host­ed by Neu­rophiloso­pher, with a vari­ety of posts on stress man­age­ment, hap­pi­ness, healthy eat­ing, pos­i­tive psy­chol­o­gy, emo­tion­al intel­li­gence, edu­ca­tion and much more. The next Brain Fit­ness blog car­ni­val will be host­ed by Jane Chin at Naked Med­i­cine. Sub­mit your arti­cles here. Oth­er blog car­ni­vals just published: 

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Brain Fitness Blog Carnival #2

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 19, 2007 |

Wel­come to the Feb­ru­ary 19, 2007 edi­tion of brain fit­ness. Today we want to high­light an excel­lent Inter­view with Aaron Beck on the His­to­ry of Cog­ni­tive Ther­a­py sub­mit­ted by the Beck Insti­tute. Dr. Beck was 83 when he gave this inter­view. To the ques­tion “Do you have a view about age­ing?”, he responds “I can…

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