It's time to broaden our definition of joy and ensure that autistic individuals are included in the pursuit of happiness.

A theory that's been around for more than a decade describes a person's subjective well-being—"happiness"—as having a U-shape ...

The U-shaped happiness curve, widely accepted in industrialized nations, does not hold universally. Research by Michael ...

Age is just a number — and maybe an indicator of your happiness. The decline in happiness among young people in North America is upending a theory that our levels of happiness throughout our ...

Exploring spirituality or meditation to foster inner peace and purpose.

The hedonic treadmill is the idea that an individual's level of happiness, after rising or falling in response to positive or negative life events, ultimately tends to move back toward where it ...

The research directly contradicts the hedonic treadmill theory, which suggests that no matter how much wealth you obtain, people adjust to normal levels of happiness and the the joys money can buy ...

Deep in the Ukrainian countryside the filmmaker becomes a participant of a radical group trying to discover happiness through mathematical formulas Can they succeed or do dreams of utopia turn ...

Do you think of relationships as cats or toasters? The answer, hopefully, is neither, but the toaster/cat theory is one that renowned happiness researcher Arthur Brooks wants us to get familiar with.

What is the significance of politics in human society? What makes political theory an indispensable activity for reflecting ...