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Don’t worry that popular positive psychology lecturer Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96 will be on leave next year—Harvard will still have HAPPI. The Harvard Applied Positive Psychology Initiative (HAPPI), a student group recently launched by Samuel E. Siner ’09, has been met with eager response from the student body, with 66 students replying within a week to e-mails sent out over house lists describing the group. Siner, who took both Psychology 1504, “Positive Psychology” and Psychology 1508, “The Psychology...
...taught more than 1,000 students over the course of his career.Some of his more unconventional students have included Josie, a 101-year old woman who is legally deaf and blind, a 71-year-old marathon runner, and numerous pregnant women, Pacelli says.Psychology Lecturer Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96 agrees that yoga can have substantial mental and physical benefits.“Yoga is associated with induced calm...and a more positive disposition and higher self-esteem,” says Ben-Shahar, who teaches Psychology 1504, “Positive Psychology...
...life lessons that Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96 taught his students in “Positive Psychology” this semester, yesterday’s might have been the most surprising. When you are the instructor of an 856-student class and you find that the final exam is missing, run as fast as you can. At 9:15 a.m., the students in Harvard’s largest course this semester packed seven lecture halls across campus, waiting to take their test. At 10:15 a.m., they were still waiting. Ben-Shahar attributed the lack of exams...
...passed the e-mail along to the Office of Academic Programs. “I think it’s an ongoing topic of concern, this is not news for anyone, really,” he says.Even Harvard’s most positive professor, Lecturer on Psychology Tal Ben-Shahar ’96, doesn’t view reading period as the break Lowell once intended. “I have the summer to do my reading and stuff. Right now I have a lot of administration to take care of. The real break starts once the grades...
...Shahar will go on leave next year to revise “The Question of Happiness” and also work on a new book, “The Permission To Be Human,” which will not be self-published...