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Lecturer on Psychology Tal Ben-Shahar ’96 advocated an “alternative framing” of the Arab-Israeli conflict at a Harvard Students for Israel (HSI) event last night, saying that taking a wider geographical, historical, and moral perspective on events in the region is necessary before the Israelis and Palestinians can reach peace...
...touch with Psychology 1504: Positive Psychology lecturer Tal Ben-Shahar to get some happiness tips for former tennis partner and soon-to-be ex-University President Lawrence H. Summers. Ben-Shahar suggests a three-prong approach to beating the resignation blues. 1) “He will likely be feeling upset, disappointed and sad. He should give himself permission to be human—to experience whatever he is experiencing and accept it as natural and human,” says Ben-Shahar. 2) Ben-Shahar recommends that Summers should study Harvard psychology Professor Daniel...
...taught English to the adolescent Strokes and yoga to Psychology 1504, “Positive Psychology” lecturer Tal Ben-Shahar ’96. Yet Positive Psychology teaching fellow (TF) Deborah R. Cohen ’91 took only one psychology class while an undergraduate at Harvard. “I found the prospect of psychology so depressing,” Cohen says. “I took ‘States of Adolescent Adjustment’ spring of my freshman year and it talked about today’s adolescent eating disorders and today?...
...fast, says Ben-Shahar. Positive Psychology is not “feel-good Polly-Anna happy-go-lucky” anything. “I’m a teacher, not a therapist,” he says. “I do hope that the class improves students’ lives...Therapy, too, is about improving people’s lives. So that’s where I think the similarity between my class and therapy lies. A therapist doesn’t lecture to his clients about the research in his field as I do, and I certainly...
...that pursuit. Others migh say it is, and maybe they’ll end up living longer and more fulfilling lives. The debate can rage, but whether it’s the children of light or the children of darkness who emerge at the end of the line, Ben-Shahar will still be lecturing to over a thousand students per week...