A positive-psychology class called the Science of Well-Being -— essentially a class in how to make yourself happier -— at George Mason University in Virginia is a challenge for positive psychologists. It is one of the 15 unhappiest campuses in America, at least per The Princeton Review. The class is taught by Todd Kashdan, a 32-year-old psychology professor whose area of research is "curiosity and well-being." Kashdan takes his students, a few of them older than he, through the various building blocks of positive psychology: optimism, gratitude, mindfulness, hope, spirituality.
