Breaking bad habits: Routines trump willpower Penn In the News CNN Breaking bad habits: Routines trump willpower A study co-authored by Asaf Mazar of the Wharton School finds that routines matter far more than willpower or conscious choices when it comes to breaking bad habits. College admission: Thanks in advance Penn In the News Forbes College admission: Thanks in advance The Character Lab, co-founded by Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences, is cited for its resources on the positive power of gratitude. How a brain tumor helped a cyclist change his life In 2019, Baccash finished the Bucks County Classic, the hardest race of the season, with a personal-best time. A few months later, he was diagnosed with brain cancer. (Image: Penn Medicine News) How a brain tumor helped a cyclist change his life In 2019, Chris Baccash was diagnosed with a a slow-growing malignant brain tumor. In 2021, after completing a grueling 100-mile cycling race up the Rockies, he started graduate school at Penn for a master’s degree in positive psychology. Here’s how Black boys can cope with racial and gender violence Penn In the News Word In Black Here’s how Black boys can cope with racial and gender violence Howard Stevenson of the Graduate School of Education speaks about the PLAAY Project, which prepares Black male youth to cope with crisis and high-stress situations through sports. Art museums plant seeds of human flourishing A view of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from the Schuylkill River. A recent review shows the many ways that art museums benefit human flourishing. Art museums plant seeds of human flourishing Researchers from the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project in the Positive Psychology Center at Penn have found that art museums are associated with wide-ranging benefits to human health. There’s a name for the feeling that nothing you do matters Penn In the News USA Today There’s a name for the feeling that nothing you do matters Martin Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences says that learned helplessness is a mental state that occurs when people find out that nothing they do matters. The past, present, and future of the Positive Humanities The past, present, and future of the Positive Humanities A new Oxford Handbook from Penn’s James Pawelski and Louis Tay of Purdue explores this emerging field, which brings together positive psychology, philosophy, the humanities, and the arts. Virtual workshops offer resilience training to Penn community Virtual workshops offer resilience training to Penn community Penn’s Division of Human Resources, in collaboration with the Positive Psychology Center, is hosting virtual workshops as a part of a six-part series presenting core resilience during COVID. Is the secret to happiness having a gratitude practice? Penn In the News The Wall Street Journal Is the secret to happiness having a gratitude practice? Martin E.P. Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the benefits of gratitude practices: “Humans are built to attend to the things that go badly in our lives. A lot of the exercises in positive psychology are ways of teaching people to savor and pay attention to what goes well.” How to make good habits stick Penn In the News WHYY (Philadelphia) How to make good habits stick Katy Milkman of the Wharton School was interviewed about her research on motivation and establishing good habits. Milkman co-led a study on exercise habits with more than 60,000 participants. Load More
College admission: Thanks in advance Penn In the News Forbes College admission: Thanks in advance The Character Lab, co-founded by Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences, is cited for its resources on the positive power of gratitude. How a brain tumor helped a cyclist change his life In 2019, Baccash finished the Bucks County Classic, the hardest race of the season, with a personal-best time. A few months later, he was diagnosed with brain cancer. (Image: Penn Medicine News) How a brain tumor helped a cyclist change his life In 2019, Chris Baccash was diagnosed with a a slow-growing malignant brain tumor. In 2021, after completing a grueling 100-mile cycling race up the Rockies, he started graduate school at Penn for a master’s degree in positive psychology. Here’s how Black boys can cope with racial and gender violence Penn In the News Word In Black Here’s how Black boys can cope with racial and gender violence Howard Stevenson of the Graduate School of Education speaks about the PLAAY Project, which prepares Black male youth to cope with crisis and high-stress situations through sports. Art museums plant seeds of human flourishing A view of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from the Schuylkill River. A recent review shows the many ways that art museums benefit human flourishing. Art museums plant seeds of human flourishing Researchers from the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project in the Positive Psychology Center at Penn have found that art museums are associated with wide-ranging benefits to human health. There’s a name for the feeling that nothing you do matters Penn In the News USA Today There’s a name for the feeling that nothing you do matters Martin Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences says that learned helplessness is a mental state that occurs when people find out that nothing they do matters. The past, present, and future of the Positive Humanities The past, present, and future of the Positive Humanities A new Oxford Handbook from Penn’s James Pawelski and Louis Tay of Purdue explores this emerging field, which brings together positive psychology, philosophy, the humanities, and the arts. Virtual workshops offer resilience training to Penn community Virtual workshops offer resilience training to Penn community Penn’s Division of Human Resources, in collaboration with the Positive Psychology Center, is hosting virtual workshops as a part of a six-part series presenting core resilience during COVID. Is the secret to happiness having a gratitude practice? Penn In the News The Wall Street Journal Is the secret to happiness having a gratitude practice? Martin E.P. Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the benefits of gratitude practices: “Humans are built to attend to the things that go badly in our lives. A lot of the exercises in positive psychology are ways of teaching people to savor and pay attention to what goes well.” How to make good habits stick Penn In the News WHYY (Philadelphia) How to make good habits stick Katy Milkman of the Wharton School was interviewed about her research on motivation and establishing good habits. Milkman co-led a study on exercise habits with more than 60,000 participants. Load More
How a brain tumor helped a cyclist change his life In 2019, Baccash finished the Bucks County Classic, the hardest race of the season, with a personal-best time. A few months later, he was diagnosed with brain cancer. (Image: Penn Medicine News) How a brain tumor helped a cyclist change his life In 2019, Chris Baccash was diagnosed with a a slow-growing malignant brain tumor. In 2021, after completing a grueling 100-mile cycling race up the Rockies, he started graduate school at Penn for a master’s degree in positive psychology.
Here’s how Black boys can cope with racial and gender violence Penn In the News Word In Black Here’s how Black boys can cope with racial and gender violence Howard Stevenson of the Graduate School of Education speaks about the PLAAY Project, which prepares Black male youth to cope with crisis and high-stress situations through sports. Art museums plant seeds of human flourishing A view of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from the Schuylkill River. A recent review shows the many ways that art museums benefit human flourishing. Art museums plant seeds of human flourishing Researchers from the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project in the Positive Psychology Center at Penn have found that art museums are associated with wide-ranging benefits to human health. There’s a name for the feeling that nothing you do matters Penn In the News USA Today There’s a name for the feeling that nothing you do matters Martin Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences says that learned helplessness is a mental state that occurs when people find out that nothing they do matters. The past, present, and future of the Positive Humanities The past, present, and future of the Positive Humanities A new Oxford Handbook from Penn’s James Pawelski and Louis Tay of Purdue explores this emerging field, which brings together positive psychology, philosophy, the humanities, and the arts. Virtual workshops offer resilience training to Penn community Virtual workshops offer resilience training to Penn community Penn’s Division of Human Resources, in collaboration with the Positive Psychology Center, is hosting virtual workshops as a part of a six-part series presenting core resilience during COVID. Is the secret to happiness having a gratitude practice? Penn In the News The Wall Street Journal Is the secret to happiness having a gratitude practice? Martin E.P. Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the benefits of gratitude practices: “Humans are built to attend to the things that go badly in our lives. A lot of the exercises in positive psychology are ways of teaching people to savor and pay attention to what goes well.” How to make good habits stick Penn In the News WHYY (Philadelphia) How to make good habits stick Katy Milkman of the Wharton School was interviewed about her research on motivation and establishing good habits. Milkman co-led a study on exercise habits with more than 60,000 participants. Load More
Art museums plant seeds of human flourishing A view of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from the Schuylkill River. A recent review shows the many ways that art museums benefit human flourishing. Art museums plant seeds of human flourishing Researchers from the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project in the Positive Psychology Center at Penn have found that art museums are associated with wide-ranging benefits to human health.
There’s a name for the feeling that nothing you do matters Penn In the News USA Today There’s a name for the feeling that nothing you do matters Martin Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences says that learned helplessness is a mental state that occurs when people find out that nothing they do matters. The past, present, and future of the Positive Humanities The past, present, and future of the Positive Humanities A new Oxford Handbook from Penn’s James Pawelski and Louis Tay of Purdue explores this emerging field, which brings together positive psychology, philosophy, the humanities, and the arts. Virtual workshops offer resilience training to Penn community Virtual workshops offer resilience training to Penn community Penn’s Division of Human Resources, in collaboration with the Positive Psychology Center, is hosting virtual workshops as a part of a six-part series presenting core resilience during COVID. Is the secret to happiness having a gratitude practice? Penn In the News The Wall Street Journal Is the secret to happiness having a gratitude practice? Martin E.P. Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the benefits of gratitude practices: “Humans are built to attend to the things that go badly in our lives. A lot of the exercises in positive psychology are ways of teaching people to savor and pay attention to what goes well.” How to make good habits stick Penn In the News WHYY (Philadelphia) How to make good habits stick Katy Milkman of the Wharton School was interviewed about her research on motivation and establishing good habits. Milkman co-led a study on exercise habits with more than 60,000 participants. Load More
The past, present, and future of the Positive Humanities The past, present, and future of the Positive Humanities A new Oxford Handbook from Penn’s James Pawelski and Louis Tay of Purdue explores this emerging field, which brings together positive psychology, philosophy, the humanities, and the arts.
Virtual workshops offer resilience training to Penn community Virtual workshops offer resilience training to Penn community Penn’s Division of Human Resources, in collaboration with the Positive Psychology Center, is hosting virtual workshops as a part of a six-part series presenting core resilience during COVID.
Is the secret to happiness having a gratitude practice? Penn In the News The Wall Street Journal Is the secret to happiness having a gratitude practice? Martin E.P. Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the benefits of gratitude practices: “Humans are built to attend to the things that go badly in our lives. A lot of the exercises in positive psychology are ways of teaching people to savor and pay attention to what goes well.” How to make good habits stick Penn In the News WHYY (Philadelphia) How to make good habits stick Katy Milkman of the Wharton School was interviewed about her research on motivation and establishing good habits. Milkman co-led a study on exercise habits with more than 60,000 participants. Load More
How to make good habits stick Penn In the News WHYY (Philadelphia) How to make good habits stick Katy Milkman of the Wharton School was interviewed about her research on motivation and establishing good habits. Milkman co-led a study on exercise habits with more than 60,000 participants.