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May 2013

May 01, 2013

“No More Choices, Please!”

Have you ever felt overwhelmed at the number of choices to buy a salad dressing...

February 2013

February 12, 2013

How Does One Get Invited on a “Monastic Vacation?”

As a follow up to my recent post about my Monastic Vacation at a 13th-century...

February 06, 2013

My Happiness Project

When I first started read Gretchen Rubin’s best-selling book, The Happiness Project, I thought, “Wow,...

January 2013

January 16, 2013

Can Suffering Lead to Flourishing?

Can bad things really lead to good things? Is it possible for suffering to lead...

January 09, 2013

Starting Points for Positive Sociology

Ever since I met Martin Seligman, one of the founders of positive psychology, at his...

November 2012

November 11, 2012

“I Can’t Believe I Did That!” The Role of Shame in Happiness

A little more than a week ago, the molecular geneticist and Buddhist monk Matthieu Richard...

October 2012

October 28, 2012

Happiness versus Life Satisfaction: What’s the Difference?

A month ago, the economist Richard Easterlin published an op-ed in the New York Times...

October 24, 2012

Sayer’s “Why Things Matter to People”

Recently, while reading Andrew Sayer’s book “Why Things Matter to People: Social Science, Values and...

October 16, 2012

My Re-Encounter with Martin Seligman: Launching a Psychology-Sociology Dialogue on Human Flourishing

When, as a 7th grader, I wrote a speech based on Martin Seligman’s theory of learned...

October 13, 2012

How much does our happiness have to do with other people?

What can we do to make ourselves happy? A lot of talk (and research) about...

October 10, 2012

Personalism and Sociology: Understanding Relationships as Obligations

Yesterday I sat down in my favorite spot at home and surrounded myself with books...

August 2012

August 01, 2012

More than Individuals: How Personalism Influences Social Theory and Research

Part 1 in a Series on Personhood. On July 1, 2012, I began a new...

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