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Gandhi's timeless view on happiness reveals why aligning your thoughts, words, and actions can lead to greater well-being.

On “The Interview,” Laurie Santos, a cognitive scientist and a professor at Yale, says that Americans think about happiness in unique ways, and they have for a long time.

If the pursuit of happiness is an unalienable right, we might wonder why many people seem to be alienated from it.

Research on spending and happiness has shown that participants derive high levels of happiness from some types of purchases that have been examined in past research (such as buying experiences), but ...

The way you view happiness influences the way you experience it. Here’s how having less can actually make you more happy. Both clinical wisdom and empirical research agree that the more we fixate on ...

The blueprint for happiness isn’t just theoretical, it’s deeply personal and powerfully practical. Here’s what it means and how you can cultivate it. What is happiness, really? Positive psychology ...

Psychology says minimalism rewires happiness in ways that accumulation never could, and ancient wisdom traditions saw this ...

Schopenhauer said life is about chasing happiness then avoiding misery. Explore how time changes our perspective on life’s ...

Psychology says your brain is far more focused on keeping you alive than keeping you happy. That may sound unsettling, but it explains why worry often feels stronger than joy and why negative thoughts ...

What makes you happy? Perhaps a good night's sleep, or a wonderful meal with friends? I am the director of the Happiness Lab at Drexel University, where I also teach a course on happiness. The ...