April 20, 2007

Doctor Feelgood

By LAUREN SMITH

Want to know the secret to happiness? Well, you're in luck. Starting next fall, Claremont Graduate University's School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences will be home to the first doctoral program in positive psychology.

This is not "smiley faced" happiness, warns Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a professor of psychology who, along with Jeanne Nakamura, an assistant professor of psychology, founded the program. "We're trying to make this program as serious and demanding as possible, so

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