This course is more than just suggesting that you 'cheer up' and 'look on the bright side.' akinbostanci/E+ via Getty Images Text saying: Uncommon Courses, from The Conversation I was discouraged. For ...

The day I spoke with happiness expert Laurie Santos, PhD, she could hardly contain her excitement sharing Jan-Emmanuel De Neve’s workplace happiness study. In partnership with Indeed, his team at ...

NEW HAVEN — Within less than 48 hours of the launch, nearly 6,000 students enrolled in a new Yale University’s free online happiness class geared toward high-schoolers. “The Science of Well-Being for ...

What does it mean to be happy? Not just satisfied or content or joyful — but to be truly, blissfully happy? Sometimes, happiness feels as elusive as a magic lamp, especially when we’re in the midst of ...

What prompted the idea for the course? I was discouraged. For nearly three decades, as a clinical psychologist, I trained mental health professionals on suicide assessment. The work was good but ...

Did you know that happiness skills can be taught? According to research by psychologist Sonia Lyubomirsky in her book The How of Happiness, while about 60% of happiness is a product of genetics or ...

Colleges and universities across the country are exploring the research behind happiness: how to achieve it and how striving for it too much can backfire. This was the inaugural year of CU Boulder's ...

AMES, Iowa — We all know that small habits, like washing our hands and eating fruits and vegetables, are good for our short- and long-term health. But many of us are in the dark when it comes to ...

WENT WRONG LATER IN SPORTS NEW TONIGHT, THE WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT SHOWS THAT THE U.S. HAS FALLEN OUT OF THE TOP 20 FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE REPORT WAS PUBLISHED IN 2012. HAPPINESS FELL SHARPLY ...

Finland has topped the ‘World Happiness Report’ for the sixth year in a row. The report takes a variety of social factors into account to rank each country for how happy the people are. But now, ...