Category: psychology

• “Are You Happy?”

  In a study done in 1988, psychologists discovered that we have different views on our quality of life from moment to moment, depending on what we were thinking about before we were asked the question. Duh, right? If you just finished watching Schindler’s List, you’re likely going to feel happy about your cozy position in life […]

  C.B. Buffington

  July 19, 2019

  Happiness, psychology, Self-help

• Why Are Negative Thoughts Stronger Than Positive Ones?

  You’ve had a rough day; someone cut you off on your way to work, you hit just about every red light, your friends won’t give you the time of day because they assume that you’re always working and worse: you are always working. You just can’t seem to get a break! Or can you? We constantly fill […]

  C.B. Buffington

  July 17, 2019

  Happiness, Negativity, psychology, Self-help

• Are Our Attention Spans Shortening? (An Internet Mystery)

  

  I was going to write a post about flakiness. I really was! I had been inspired by a segment in Eric Barker’s Barking Up The Wrong Tree and Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit and saw a connection between the two. In order to write my own thing, however, I needed to do some of my own research […]

  C.B. Buffington

  June 22, 2019

  Cool Stuff, psychology, Research, science, Self-help

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