Imagine two different societies. In the first, people tend to be stressed, tense, irritable, distracted and self-absorbed. In the second, people tend to be at ease, untroubled, quick to laugh, ...

Can you teach yourself how to be happy? An emerging field in psychology looks at ways people can manufacture their own happiness. The happiness problem is a topic being tackled on college campuses ...

Yale is offering a lesson that is so simple, but it can take a lifetime to learn. Psychology and the Good Life is commonly referred to as the happiness class. The purpose of the course is to not only ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Have you ever wondered what the secret to happiness is? You can now find out by taking Yale University's most popular class online -- for free. "Psychology and the Good Life" is ...

In “The Pursuit of Happiness,” Director of Education James Pawelski of Penn's Positive Psychology Center hopes to help students define and apply different ways of developing happiness in their lives.

Shawn Achor, a former Harvard University staffer who worked on a course called "Happiness 101," says happiness is a choice. By Kathryn Romeyn Happiness guru Shawn Achor has worked out perhaps the best ...

It’s a myth that suicides increase over the holidays, but it’s true that suicide rates in Utah are always high. To combat this, Frank Clayton teaches a free class, Happiness 101, to local groups and ...

Don't worry. It's hard to be happy, consumed as we are by polarizing politics, the neighbor's over-the-top vacation posts, traffic nightmares, suffocating college debt and shrinking financial safety ...

This semester, every Tuesday and Thursday at 1 p.m., about a quarter of Yale’s student population flocks to Woolsey Hall—the university’s concert hall and only space on campus big enough to ...

While happiness is of course a timeless subject and universal in scope, Americans have had a special relationship with it since the nation’s founding. This relationship accelerated in the 20th century ...