Why are some people happier than others? And how can we improve our quality of life? Those are the two main questions I have been trying to answer for more than a decade. I run the Happiness Research ...

You’ve probably heard of “hygge,” the Danish concept of coziness that became all the rage a few years ago. But you may not have heard of the man who made it internet-famous. But even happiness experts ...

But money isn’t the best predictor of overall happiness and a sense of well-being. A study published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that autonomy, defined as “the feeling that ...

Happiness and well-being depend on how much volition, choice and control people feel they have over their life—their sense of ...

Chip Conley is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and the founder of one of America’s first boutique hotel companies. He was the previous head of Global Hospitality and Strategy for Airbnb ...

Somewhere along the way someone probably told you that money can’t buy happiness. And, at least since 2010, they’d have had prestigious research from a couple of Nobel laureates to back them up. The ...

I s happiness more than pleasure? What’s its relationship to meaningfulness? To income inequality? To authoritarian politics? Why do philosophers and psychologists think about hedonism differently?