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 ...

Research suggests that practicing gratitude, engaging in physical activity, and cultivating social connections can improve both mood and overall well-being. Learn more science-backed strategies to ...

Happiness isn’t a finish line. Learn what science says actually builds well-being and how small, practical shifts can make a ...

Both clinical wisdom and empirical research agree that the more we fixate on happiness, the more elusive it becomes. In ...

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 ...

You’ve probably heard of “hygge,” the Danish concept of coziness that became all the rage a few years ago. But you may not have heard of the man who made it internet-famous. But even happiness experts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?