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The Psychology of Happiness
05/11/2021
The Psychology of Happiness
In today's episode talks with about her new audiobook, Through this conversation Dr. Kurtz shares her expertise and insight to help us all understand how happiness can be "coached" and internalized versus just a momentary feeling. A few of the questions we covered are: How has the field of psychology changed over time in regard to understanding and measuring happiness? What can we do to cause happiness versus it just happens to be our internal bias? How and why our happiness impacts to many other areas of our lives? How can we spend money in a way that promotes happiness? As the author of "The Happy Traveler", in what ways can we change how we plan and enjoy vacations to help the happiness of them last longer? For a full transcript to today's show, please visit: Dr. Kurtz is an Associate Professor of Psychology at , where she teaches courses on Social Psychology, Psychology of Personality, Positive Psychology, and Psychological Research Methods. She received her B.A. from Millersville University of Pennsylvania and my M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Dr. Kurtz has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters on happiness, and with bestselling author Sonja Lyubomirsky, she is co-author of , a workbook for putting happiness strategies into practice in everyday life. Her first solo-authored book, , was published in June of 2017 by Oxford University Press. With the Institute for Brain Potential, Dr. Kurtz offers seminars on happiness and well-being to health-care professionals nationwide. In addition, she writes the popular Happy Trails online column for . We hope you enjoyed this conversation and took away a few useful tips towards improving and maintaining happiness. Please send us feedback and any topic or questions you would like us to cover.
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