Gretchin Rubin, happiness researcher and bestselling author of "The Happiness Project" shares her favorite life tips that ...

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The type of thoughts below exemplify these misconceptions about happiness: Positive psychology is the branch of psychology that explores human flourishing. It asks how individuals can experience ...

But research reveals that bursts of happiness or sadness tied to specific life events are fairly short. Thoughts like “I’ll be happy when I get married” or “I’ll never recover from this ...

What’s wrong with aiming for happiness? The short answer is that our quest for happiness is pretty clearly backfiring. Look around at America today and ask yourself, how are we doing?

"So, this is how it feels," I thought. To borrow and turn around ... some of the most beautiful poems about grief, and happiness, left a short poem before he died from cancer, aged just 50.