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Chasing happiness may drain your mental energy, making you less happy in the long run.
Sweden’s “Lagom,” and Denmark’s “Hygge,” aren’t just trendy words — they’re philosophies that promote well-being and balance.
It's not money, it's not fame or glory. It's all about healthy relationships. Enjoy this masterful TED talk!
There's no "ceiling" apparently to how much money can contribute to happiness.
Sometimes, you just have to get up and do a thing to be happy.
The closest one should pass around the same distance the Moon orbits at.
For better or worse, money is increasingly the source of happiness.
Thanks, Nature!
We want it, we treasure it, we go to great lengths to attain it.
People who visit an urban park use happier language and express less negativity on Twitter for up to four hours.
Seems simple enough!
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
In a bout of positive news, people are very good at spotting happiness throughout their lives. Anger and fear, not so much.
Sometimes less really is more.
The study was performed on Chinese cities -- but the air pollution problem is very much a global one.
I'm not recovering from anything and I still need these exercises in my life.
Useful information for policymakers.
Hope you prepared a lot of gifts this Christmass!
The old that is strong does not wither!
Your personality matters more than your paycheck or social circle when it comes to being happy.
It's dangerous to go alone -- take some friends.
Quality time with friends makes anyone happy.
Chasing happiness might be what's pushing it away.
Unlike apps, happiness doesn't seem to come through your phone.
Ironically, if you don't make enough € you probably have more pressing concerns than making art.
Move if you want to be happy!
Seriously, why are selfies a thing?
Who knew that governments can make people happier?
As if finding happiness wasn't complicated enough, we now have a multi-variable equation.
The science of happiness is still a youthful and controversial field, but one thing seems to be clear: there’s only so much money and comfort can bring. Economic growth doesn’t translate to happiness. Sure, people in developed countries often tend to be happier than those in developing countries, but generally speaking money doesn’t bring more happiness – […]
It's easy to assume that with economic gain comes happiness -- we live in capitalism, after all. But science comes to prove us all wrong yet again, and shows that the link between economics and happiness is much more complicated that we thought. Money can't buy happiness, it seems.
Researchers have theoretized for some time that our languages are skewed towards happy words - with some more skewed than others. A new study conducted on 10 different languages confirmed this idea, and also found that Spanish is the happiest language, while Chinese is the most balanced.
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you less sadness - a new study has found that higher income doesn't really correlate to happiness, but it correlates negatively with sadness.
Sometimes, we go through situations thinking when we reach the end of the road the outcome will feel gloom. But sometimes, the exact opposite happens and we're flooded with absolute joy, the kind of which we couldn't have experienced were we to expect that outcome. In a word, this is called surprise.
Scientists successfully predicted human happiness using a mathematical equation - you too can use the smartphone app they developed and be a part of the experiment.
A new research paper written by psychologists Elizabeth Dunn and Lara Aknin, along with Michael Norton of Harvard Business School shows that there’s a clear and simple way to be more happy in life – spending more money on others. The notion of generosity has been greatly debated among scientists lately – and it’s not […]
While happiness and meaningfulness often overlap, the two are distinct states of being. A Stanford project looked into the lives of various people inline between the two and found some key differences based on how people choose spend their time and what experiences they cultivate. The findings may surprise some of you, while others will choose […]
The United Nations General Assembly has just released its second annual World Happiness Report, measuring happiness and well-being in countries around the world in an attempt to help guide public policy; it has been consistently shown that happiness plays an important role in society – happy people live longer, have more productive lives, earn higher […]
I a recent study published by the University of British Columbia, Canada, it seems women are more sexually attracted by men who display a more gloomy complexion or awareness of social norms by displaying shame, than men who look happy all the time. The study published online Tuesday in the American Psychological Association journal Emotion […]
So here it is: a new study comes to show that the way we feel throughout our lives may determine our children’s development. It’s all a problem of chemistry: the “chemistry” of happiness or sadness. However, don’t think that the fact that one’s parents had a bad day at work turned him or her into […]
