Happiness is an electrifying and elusive state. Philosophers, theologians, psychologists, and even economists have long sought to define it. And since the 1990s, a whole branch of psychology ...

If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.” For centuries, the greatest thinkers have suggested the same thing: Happiness is found in helping others. For it is in giving that we ...

At the time, the study of happiness was far from the wellness mega-field it has become today. In the ’60s, a researcher ...

Her studies have investigated two components of happiness: cognitive, that is, a sense of satisfaction with life, and emotional, the raw experience of joy. For many of us, experiencing these two ...

Yes! I thought, as I read these lines from the Russian American poet Joseph Brodsky in a 1989 love poem, “A Song.” There’s something about the ineffable beauty of life that formal knowledge misses. So ...

That curve has long shown younger people with high happiness levels, which decline into middle age. Life satisfaction starts climbing again as people head into their retirement years. For a long time, ...