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Article: New Website Uses Scientific Testing to Increase Happiness Through 'Positive Psychology'.
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- January 10, 2005
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PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Can science increase happiness? Well, a professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of 21 books on motivation and personality thinks so. Martin Seligman, Ph.D., the father of Positive Psychology and best-selling author, has developed a series of scientifically tested exercises designed to increase happiness. Time Magazine, in its January 17, 2005 issue, hails Dr. Seligman's work as an important breakthrough in the effort to improve emotional well-being.
According to Dr. Seligman, "Advances in Positive Psychology have helped hundreds of thousands of people measure, improve, and sustain their ...