There is a review in this week's issue of PsycCRITIQUES of the following book:
The Levity Effect: Why It Pays to Lighten Up
by Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2008. 229 pp. ISBN 978-0-470-19588-8. $22.95
An excerpt from the review by Richard D. Harvey:
In sum, this is a well-written book that makes the business case for why
organizations ought to seriously consider adopting levity-related practices and
programs.
So maybe employers should consider happiness to be a skill.
David Kreiner
Professor of Psychology
University of Central Missouri
Lovinger
Warrensburg MO 64093
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Positive psychology made Jay Leno's monologue last night. He said that
professors in a lot of colleges are now giving courses in positive psychology,
in which they teach students to be happy. And they stay happy, until they
graduate, at which point they discover that employers don't consider happiness
to be a skill. (rimshot)
Chris Green
York U.
Toronto
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