U.S. News & World Report: After returning from a great trip – be it a quick coastal getaway or a more far-flung retreat – it’s easy to reminisce about our most remarkable travel moments. Whether you’re daydreaming about the fun you had sinking your toes in the sand, gliding down More
Los Angeles Times: Do happier people live longer? An article in the British medical journal Lancet made headlines this month claiming the answer to that question is no. The researchers based their conclusion on data from the Million Women Study in Britain, and it contradicts a large body of research More
The New York Times: Go ahead and sulk. Unhappiness won’t kill you. A study published on Wednesday in The Lancet, following one million middle-aged women in Britain for 10 years, finds that the widely held view that happiness enhances health and longevity is unfounded. “Happiness and related measures of well-being More
New psychological findings show why a country’s economic growth doesn’t always translate into greater happiness for its citizens. More
NPR: Money can’t buy you happiness, right? That’s the assumption we’ve always had, and it feels good to feel that way. It’s also been held by something called the Easterlin paradox that happiness is about lots of other stuff. Well, it turns out the story might be a little more More
Business Insider: When psychologist Arthur Aron was a graduate student in the 1960s, he was looking around for something to study for his dissertation. But he didn’t want just any topic. He wanted to find one “that people thought couldn’t be studied scientifically and then prove that it could be,” he More
