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...Optimalist" Most people would define optimism as being eternally hopeful, endlessly happy, with a glass that's perpetually half full. But that's exactly the kind of deluded cheerfulness that positive psychologists wouldn't recommend. "Healthy optimism means being in touch with reality," says Tal Ben-Shahar, a Harvard professor who taught the university's most popular course, Positive Psychology, from 2002 to 2008. "It certainly doesn't mean being Pollyannaish and thinking everything is great and wonderful...
...first glance, the decision by United Arab Emirates officials not to grant Israeli tennis star Shahar Peer a visa to compete in the Dubai Tennis Championships, a tournament she qualified for, may seem like another example in the never-ending stream of petty tit-for-tat retributions that have been as much a part of the 60-year Arab-Israeli conflict as wars and upheavals. Though the U.A.E. justified the blocking of Peer's visa as a measure taken to protect the player herself from demonstrators and growing anti-Israeli sentiment in the Emirates, the move is widely seen...
...Shahar Blame it on his layered accent, his unassuming presence, or his exotic name, but Tal Ben-Shahar, professor of the popular Psychology 1504: “Positive Psychology” course, is someone Harvard people love. Class enrollment shows Harvard people choose Justice over happiness, but according to the Q Guide, Ben-Shahar’s students are “HAPPIER...
...said that the dinner was intended to appeal to students who may not regularly celebrate Shabbat. “We were trying to engage Jewish students in an aspect of Jewish life that they might not otherwise be involved in,” Joselow said. Professor Tal D. Ben-Shahar, professor of the popular class Psychology 1504: “Positive Psychology,” gave the evening’s opening remarks. “A lot of what he talks about in Positive Psych and the spirit of Shabbat are similar,” Rohr said...
...that this study, which was published last month in the weekly journal Science, brings something new to the science of happiness. “The focus wasn’t on spending in previous studies, it was on general prosocial behaviors,” she said. Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96, who teaches Psychology 1504: “Positive Psychology,” said that humans are deeply connected in a “web of empathy,” thus tying individual happiness to that of others. “Sometimes there’s nothing...