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By: Julius N. Leonen, INQUIRER.net, Jan 02, 2018 A Filipina smiles as she displays a Philippine flag during an event at the Luneta Grandstand. AFP file photo Despite disasters, calamities and conflict, the Philippines ranked third among the happiest countries of the world, according to a global polling body.
by Frank T. McAndrew, Aug 15, 2017 In the 1990s, a psychologist named Martin Seligman led the positive psychology movement, which placed the study of human happiness squarely at the center of psychology research and theory. It continued a trend that began in the 1960s with humanistic and existential psychology, which emphasized the importance of…
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by Miguel R. Camus, Inquirer Filipinos worried far more than other countries when going by the 2017 Unisys Security Index, the latest iteration of the decade-old survey that included the Philippines for the first time.
“The most important decision is who you surround yourself with” by Chris Weller, Business Insider, Aug 4, 2017 According to Moran Cerf, a neuroscientist at Northwestern University who has been studying decision-making for over a decade, the surest way to maximize happiness has nothing to do with experiences, material goods, or personal philosophy.
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by Thaddeus Metz, May 31, 2017 On the face of it, there are many situations in which doing something that makes us happier fails to make our lives more meaningful. Some recent examples from my life include: having taken a gloriously hot shower, watched several episodes of the HBO comedy series “Veep” while eating chocolate…
by ROBBY BERMAN, Jan 4, 2017 For everyone, there are times when a dark cloud just seems to be following you around. You may not even even know why. While we don’t mean to minimize the value of medication for those who experience this on a daily basis, UCLA neuroscientist Alex Korb, author of The…
MANILA, Philippines – Family, health, and religion or spiritual work are the top 3 things that make Filipino men and women happy, according to a poll conducted by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) to determine the Philippine Happiness Index (PHI) for 2010.
FAMILY, HEALTH, and religion emerged as Filipino men’s and women’s top sources of joy in the 2010 Philippine Happiness Index (PHI), whose results were released yesterday by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).
The level of happiness among poor Filipinos fell “dramatically” over the last three years, according to the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB). In its Statistically Speaking, NSCB Secretary General Romulo Virola on Tuesday said that the level of happiness did not change much between 2007 and 2008, but dramatically went down in 2010.