Why are some people happier than others? And how can we improve our quality of life? Those are the two main questions I have been trying to answer for more than a decade. I run the Happiness Research ...

But money isn’t the best predictor of overall happiness and a sense of well-being. A study published in Journal of ...

Happiness is not magic that simply happens. It grows from small, everyday habits. If you pay attention to relationships, rest ...

Chip Conley is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and the founder of one of America’s first boutique hotel companies. He was the previous head of Global Hospitality and Strategy for Airbnb ...

Somewhere along the way someone probably told you that money can’t buy happiness. And, at least since 2010, they’d have had prestigious research from a couple of Nobel laureates to back them up. The ...

True happiness doesn't come from controlling everything around you — it comes from mastering what you give your energy to.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — You might feel sad after looking closer at studies about happiness. That’s because an emotion that’s easy to experience is immensely difficult to measure, says Purdue University ...

Life in America keeps getting more miserable, according to the latest data from the General Social Survey, one of the longest-running and most highly regarded public opinion research projects in the ...

I s happiness more than pleasure? What’s its relationship to meaningfulness? To income inequality? To authoritarian politics? Why do philosophers and psychologists think about hedonism differently?

What’s the secret to happiness? It’s an age-old question — and one that is addressed in a new study in the academic journal, Psychological Science. A team of researchers led by Andrew Jebb of Purdue ...