Happiness is defined differently depending on who you ask. Some people define happiness as a positive emotional experience. Others define happiness as having two parts called hedonia (pleasure) and ...

When I read that my hometown topped the list of happiest cities in the country — for a second year in a row, no less — I snorted into my morning coffee. Not to diss Miami, but surely, there was some ...

More than 20 years ago, Pamela Gail Johnson — a life and leadership coach — began digging into a question that was gnawing at her: Why are people largely so unhappy? She fully understood why people ...

Recently I noticed a young man at my church struggling with a very unhappy newborn. He wore a fashionable white sweater now stained with spit-up. Many in our culture might look upon this scene with ...

Is there a key to happiness? It's among humanity's biggest questions and one that we still don't fully know the answer to. While scientists are getting closer to pinpointing certain factors that may ...

Author Tal Ben-Shahar’s new book “Happiness Studies” introduces a new interdisciplinary field of study dedicated to exploring happiness. Now, Ben-Shahar is working to create a masters degree program ...

When 21-year-old comedian Jaboukie Young-White took the stage on Jimmy Fallon last week, he spoke about the current trend of older writers coming to terms with the fact that millennials are "just poor ...

The quest to optimize employee happiness has led certain organizations to assign chief happiness officers. For example, years ago, Google appointed Chade-Meng Tan, an engineer, as their "Jolly Good ...