Happiness means different things to residents of France, Brazil, Finland, and Japan. This global primer will help you find ...

What if everything you've been told about happiness is wrong? Solid empirical research reveals why chasing joy might be ...

New research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science shows that awareness of economic disparity affects ...

89% of experts believe the pursuit of happiness does not make people selfish. Research on subjective well-being and ...

America loves to talk about happiness. The word is everywhere, as is the search for its meaning. Gurus take to stages across the country to pronounce on the precepts of happiness. Bookstores have ...

The Observer: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood Empirical research has been conducted on many aspects of happiness. British labor economist Richard Layard — a scholar who has written ...

After exploring the meaning of happiness in her last semester with Professor Jen Perry, the West Lafayette, Ohio, native is now conducting PTSD research as a funded BW Summer Scholar.

Paul Rand: That’s Shigehiro Oishi, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago, and one of the world’s foremost experts on happiness and meaning. Shigehiro Oishi: I mean, he talked to only ...

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” – Keats. There are several books on my shelves that have the word “meaning” in their title.

I mean, there was a we had to always go early to bed. Early to rise, the oh my goodness regimen. And we and we were not sleep after 9:00 in the morning because we were not leading a productive life.

It turns out that looking at the face of a 3-year-old who is asking about his mother’s happiness, can be a source of happiness not only for the mother but for others as well. Most often ...