ARE YOU HAPPY?

Happy?: Carol Tavris, in this weeks TLS, examines how to be happy, and why we need books to tell us what we already know, in the light of three new works on the subject: “The [positive psychology] movement has produced a wave of research on who is happy, who isn’t, and why. These researchers often manage to hold their professional meetings in places like Bermuda in the winter, which suggests that positive psychologists know how to practise what they preach.” To find out why “taking a nap or having a nice cup of tea and a scone” may be the answer. http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.aspx?story_id=2111143