‘Lucky girl syndrome’ focuses on using positive affirmations to achieve material benefit.
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Psychology researchers know what kinds of behavior enhance feelings of social connection.
There is more than one way to pursue happiness and to cope with the inevitable low times in life.
TV programmes with certain themes can help boost our mood.
Stay-at-home measures allowed many people to slow down, reflect and invest more time in themselves.
‘Prozac leaders’ believe their own rhetoric that “everything is going well”. But this wishful thinking can quickly contaminate organisations, and has been disastrous during the pandemic.
We asked five experts if your mental state can affect how well you recover from illness and disease. Five out of five said yes.
Human beings seem to be born wearing rose-colored glasses. Psychologists are interested in how this bias toward the positive works in the very young – and how it fades over time.
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Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Conjoint Clinical Associate Professor, Deakin University School of Medicine and Specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer In Academic General Practice, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychological Interventions, University of Central Lancashire
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Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Lecturer in Psychology, Federation University Australia
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Reader in Psychology, University of Strathclyde
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Associate Professor Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Nursing, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor Drug Discovery, Monash University
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Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Organisation, Lancaster University
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Professor of Coaching and Positive Psychology, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Lecturer in Positive Psychology, University of East London
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Community Faculty in Psychology, Metropolitan State University
