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
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
