Are you a schadenfreude person or a shep naches person?

The definitive "Are You a Happy Person" survey
(you need answer, truthfully of course, only one question)

* Do you feel elated when others are (or are also) happy or successful; or does your feeling of happiness depend on others' unhappiness or failure?

Sounds like a strange question? The New York Times section of TODAY (April 27) carried an article which featured an expert on "happiness"...

You can read the full article at the NYT site:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/fashion/happiness-inc.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Here's the excerpt on whether you are a schadenfreude person or a shep naches person:

Here's another of Dr Lyubomirsky's observations:

 

Some weeks back, Dr Maureen Neihart, an American academic based in Singapore had also written a commentary, for ST, on happiness. She essentially made the point that there are tried and tested behavioural vaccines that an individual can avail himself or herself of, to achieve a happier state of mind:

Her tips on how to innoculate oneself with such a vaccine can be found on this Channel NewsAsia AM video clip featured on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYXwfdDL7V0

This poster below seems apt here:

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Other stuff from the week's newspapers...

An unfortunate choice of headline/picture?

Great headline!

Strange headline...

This too: Parliament is a market place?

Last one: Got "productive" cough, meh?