According to the 2019 World Happiness Report, negative feelings are rising around the world—and the United States is particularly hard hit with an “epidemic of addictions.” Tellingly, the report also ...

Happiness is the subject of countless quotations, slogans, self-help books and personal choices. It is also being taken seriously by national governments and organizations like the United Nations, as ...

This research update from the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard discusses the role of happiness and life satisfaction in human life, its effects on other aspects of flourishing, and what it is that ...

Arthur C. Brooks is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Business School. His research centers on human happiness. Before coming to Harvard, he served for 10 years as president of ...

Christopher Boyce is affiliated with BiGGAR Economics, an independent economics consultancy, and Health in Mind, a mental health charity. It’s one thing to know what makes people happy, but quite ...

Hemal N. Sampat of Massachusetts General Hospital pulls his phone out of his pocket and reads out one of his favorite quotes from the film “The Martian”: “Every human being has a basic instinct: to ...

Life can be hard for anyone. That much is given. But then a question is raised from this Sunday’s first reading: Is striving too hard to achieve something in life also meaningless? Wisdom literature ...