How happy are you feeling right now? Think about it. Your exams are coming up, you might be making some really important decisions about the future, and on top of this you have friendship and family commitments which all need your time and attention. So, how happy are you? Are you as happy as you can be? Do people vary in their ability to be happy?
These are some of the questions which are being addressed right now by ‘positive psychology’, a currently expanding field of research with its roots in the 1950s. In stark contrast to mainstream psychology, which tends to want to explain things that go wrong, positive psychologists are interested in what makes us thrive as human beings.
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