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...While the stage cameras kept away from the children, most eyes in the auditorium were fixed on the three in the front row next to their grandparents Katherine and Joe Jackson. Seven-year-old Prince Michael II, known as Blanket, held a Michael Jackson doll. Eldest son Michael Joseph Jr., 12, held the memorial program and chewed gum vigorously. Paris kept close to her grandmother...
...interesting twist on that study, Cohen and colleague Sarah Pressman similarly analyzed a collection of autobiographies - this time, written by 96 leading psychologists at an average age of 65. Once again, there was a correlation between longevity and positive emotions, but in the newer study the relationship held only for "active" expressions of emotion, such as "excited," "thrilled" and "delighted" as opposed to passive emotions like "pleased" and "calm." Falling in line with other recent social research in the elderly, the analysis found that language indicating strong social relationships was powerfully associated with longer life. (See how to prevent illness...
That temptation was addressed head-on in a keynote speech by Ed Diener, president of the International Positive Psychology Association. Diener pointed out that some of the most popular findings on happiness have not held up to further study, that researchers have begun to the record straight...
Such findings support a widely held theory by happiness researchers that a person's level of satisfaction is determined largely by character and attitudes - less by external factors, like money or disability - and that we tend to return to our personal set point. But another branch of research - the one that leads to bestselling books and, at the conference, sessions that were packed to the point of fire-code violation - suggests that set point can be modified, and that people can learn to be happier...
...group of women wearing head scarves. "He has heart disease," one woman said of her arrested husband. "He didn't go out yesterday or the day before, but still they took him." The women estimated that thousands of men had been arrested. They dumped out plastic bags that held more than 100 pairs of footwear and trousers, which they said police had forced the detainees to take off when they were arrested. Urumqi Party Secretary Li Zhi had said earlier at a press conference that more than 1,000 people were arrested but that they were all taken while actively...