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Moments of Savoring Decrease Stress
According to a 2007 study on savoring, spending time each day to focus on your breathing, body sensations, and the things around you is an effective way to decrease stress and increase well being. 83...
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Mindfulness Meditation Restores Self-Control
According to a recent experiments, a short session of meditation may have a regenerative effect on self-control. Researchers ran an experiment to test the effect of 5-minute periods of mindfulness...
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Testing is Essential For Learning
Recent research suggests that testing can improve recall. Beyond simply studying new concepts, it may also be necessary to attempt to retrieve new information from memory in order to effectively store...
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Dividing Rewards Into Categories Improves Motivation
Using a two category reward system has been shown to increase motivation in performing tasks. Even when the rewards have nothing to do with the objective and the categories are meaningless, having two...
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Encouraging interviewees to say “I don’t know” improves performance.
Interviewees often face pressure to give an answer to a question even when there isn’t enough information available. It is typical for interviewers to force interviewees to answer questions by...
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Deliberate Practice and Levels of Knowledge
To achieve expertise, it is important to focus on areas of weakness. A recent series of experiments in learning, however, cautions that this is only the case after an intermediate level of knowledge...
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Using Different Pronouns When Journaling Increases Positive Emotion
A lot of research has been published demonstrating the beneficial qualities of writing exercises. For example, we have previously written about the benefits of writing thank-you letters. One novel...
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Conscious Effort to Enjoy Pleasant Activities Can Improve Happiness
Research suggests that the positive effects of a pleasant activity, such as listening to happy music, can be enhanced by consciously exerting effort to feel happier. To test the effects of explicit...
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Considering the Unlikeliness of One’s Birth Increases Subjective Well-being
Though it may seem counter-intuitive, exploring the ways in which your birth might have never happened has been shown to increase subjective well-being. In one experiment designed to test this, 267...
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Spending Money on Others Shown to Improve Happiness Across Cultures
Using financial resources to help others may be one of the most universal ways to increase well-being. Cross-cultural psychologists have studied prosocial spending and its implications for happiness by...
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