Harvard professor Dr. Arthur Brooks just dropped a masterclass on happiness science during The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast, and his message is clear: forget everything you think you know ...

Just five minutes a day performing 'micro-acts of joy' that foster positive emotions is enough to banish stress, boost health ...

Studies have found that rest improves memory and can literally grow our brains. Neuroscientist Dr Joseph Jebelli reveals how to give your brain a break ...

Harvard psychology professor Daniel Gilbert is widely known for his 2006 best seller, Stumbling on Happiness. His work reveals, among other things, the systematic mistakes we all make in imagining ...

In his New York Times bestselling book, Stumbling on Happiness, leading Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert claims findings like Kahneman’s reveal that the idea that “children bring happiness ...

He wrote, " . . . happiness is usually the result of having a meaningful life." That meaning, he argues, comes from three activities: love, work and play.

Happiness and humor, which I teach through my “Laughter in Literature” course, are central to the human condition and crucial in a college curriculum. Yet despite an explosion of interest in ...

In 1978, a trio of researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Massachusetts attempted to answer this by asking two very disparate groups about the happiness in their lives ...