What is the secret to happiness? Does happiness come from within, or is it shaped by external influences such as our jobs, ...

Although the right to chase anything is no guarantee you’ll someday catch it. And though happiness may be the elusive quest for most any human negotiating life, this idea of how “to be,” or maybe how ...

Is happiness a gift we carry inside us? Or is it built on the foundations of good jobs, relationships, and health?

"We've known for some time that social relationships are the best predictor of human happiness, and this paper shows that the effect is much more powerful than anyone realized," Gilbert said.

Baylor and Harvard Universities, together with Gallup and the Center for Open Science, released the first findings of their ...

It’s an intuitive truth that everybody needs these experiences to live a happy life, and recent happiness research suggests ...

Students explored practices rooted in gratitude, compassion, mindfulness and connection, applying them through weekly exercises. Since then, more than half a million people have taken the course -- ...

where hundreds of participants gathered to discuss the “goal of human happiness and the well-being of all life on Earth.” Since then, the World Happiness Report has released annual findings on ...

From Bhutan's early emphasis on Gross National Happiness to Finland's continued reign as the world's happiest nation, the ...

and recent happiness research suggests that young people can only really flourish when they have “real-life human contact and love,” Arthur C. Brooks writes. Social connection and community is ...