Being happy might be easier than you think, but it requires vigilance, new research has found. Long-term happiness may stem from learning a set of techniques and applying them every day for an ...

What does it take to be considered the world’s happiest country? For the sixth year in a row, Finland has earned that accolade, winning the top spot yet again in the annual World Happiness Report, ...

While most people enjoy buying something new and expensive such as a new phone, TV or car, the pleasure of that purchase often fades over time. After you grow bored with what you bought, you’ll want ...

Meghan Marcum, PhD, Dr. Meghan Marcum is the Chief Psychologist at AMFM Healthcare. Sarah Sarkis, PhD, clinical psychologist, certified executive coach, and senior director of performance psychology ...

It’s one thing to know what makes people happy, but quite another to live a happy life oneself. I didn’t get a true taste of happiness until I quit my decade-long career as a happiness academic, ...

Are you living your happiest life? How does your mood affect your health? Is happiness contagious? Researchers are finding these questions are worth asking, and multiple studies show happiness ...

Even rappers have gotten in on the act. “Mo Money Mo Problems,” a 1997 song by the Notorious B.I.G., contains the chorus “It’s like the more money we come across/ The more problems we see.” Ten years ...

Source: Image by PxHere, CC0. When you were in college, did you take a "happiness course?" Such classes are usually taught by psychology or counseling professors and are now relatively common, but ...

I've been a psychologist for nearly 20 years, and I don't think I've ever met anyone who is "happy." Uplifting, right? Turns out, a general, all-encompassing "happy with everything, all the time" is a ...