Can Happiness Make Us Healthier? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Society of Clinical Psychology
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
We designed a 12-week positive psychological intervention—ENHANCE—focused explicitly on increasing happiness rather than treating mental illness. In a paper published in the journal Psychological Science , we found that our positive psychological intervention had beneficial effects on self-reported physical health (Kushlev et al.,
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