All posts tagged "Happiness"
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A Thank-You to Librarians Who Make Everyone Feel Welcome
I wish that Nancy knew how much impact she had on me. She, like many librarians I’ve gotten to meet, who are really my heroes, let you know that the..
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How Teachers Can Help Students With Special Needs Navigate Distance
On day four of the second round of distance learning this fall, I saw something on my first-grade daughter’s Zoom meeting that broke my heart—both as a parent and as..
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Scientists Are Teaching Young People to Detect Fake News
Soon after the 2016 presidential election, as debates raged over “fake news” and its influence on the outcome, a landmark report from researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Education provided..
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Eight Questions That Can Help You Survive Election Stress
How are you doing? For Americans facing the COVID-19 lockdown and economic instability through the spring and summer, that became a difficult question to ask—and to answer. Things were already pretty..
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How Gratitude Can Help With Students’ Anxiety
Students and educators have started a new school year in the midst of a pandemic, an economic crisis, a reckoning with racial injustice, and a divisive political climate. Everyone’s mental..
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Would More Social Justice Make You Happier?
While there is a lot that we can do to increase our own well-being, our social and political environments play an important role in our happiness, too. In particular, research..
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How Getting COVID-19 Forced Me to Re-Examine My Life
On April 5, 2020, I started to feel tired in the middle of the day. A couple days later, I found myself trying to catch my breath on a conference..
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10 New Movies to Make You Feel Better About Being
We’re watching a lot of TV these days. Thanks to a perfect storm of disease, natural disaster, and political turmoil, most North Americans are cut off from simple pleasures like..
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How Narcissistic Leaders Make Organizations Less Ethical
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? The answer: not the organizations led by narcissists. A new paper by Berkeley Haas School of Business professor Jennifer Chatman..
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Episode 76: If You Want to Be More Productive, Cut
Evan Sharp The year is 2009. It’s the end of the year. I’m in New York city studying architecture in graduate school at Columbia University, and I’m really broke and,..