At the start of 2025, Sam Maglio, PhD, a professor of marketing and psychology at the University of Toronto Scarborough, made a resolution that he felt could defeat the so-called happiness paradox. He ...

Our own well-being should never be overlooked to accommodate someone else's. As you were growing up, it was your parents’ job to raise you to be a self-sufficient, emotionally intelligent and ...

Stop waiting for permission to be happy because you have everything you already need. What if happiness isn't something you have to chase, but something you can cultivate? While our culture often ...

At just 16, Michael Plant became interested in what people could do to maximize happiness, so he started studying philosophy. Two decades later, Plant, 36, is a global happiness researcher at the ...

Source: Sebastian Voortman/Pexels When someone asks you your relationship status, do you answer "single" but then add a kicker like "for now" or "but I'm working on it" to make yourself feel better?

Emotions play a huge role in everything we do, especially when it comes to money. The title of my book is Emotionally Invested. I picked that title because money is freakin’ emotional! Understanding ...

A few weeks ago, I stumbled across an article about happiness — specifically, the best advice the writer had gathered throughout her years of working in health and wellness. And while I expected a ...

I’ve talked to a former chief of the F.B.I.’s Crisis Negotiation Unit about how to defuse tension during family holidays. Emergency-room doctors about how to avoid accidents. A neuroscientist who ...

The day I arrived in Finland to learn how to be happy, I thought about the ladder. Humans have many ways to assess their own happiness, but the Cantril Ladder may be the most influential, even if ...

We are never short of recipes for happiness. The internet, in particular, is full of people who claim to be happy and to have the ability to make others happy if they follow their advice. Becoming ...