Less cramming. More Frisbee. At Yale, students learn how to live the good life.
Laurie Santos greeted her Yale University students with slips of paper that explained: No class today. It was mid-semester, with… More
Positive Emotions
Mindfulness may have been over-hyped
In late 1971, US Navy veteran Stephen Islas returned from Vietnam, but the war continued to rage in his head… More
What Americans Can Learn About Happiness From Denmark
Research shows “hygge,” or intentional intimacy, is the driving force behind the Danes’ generally positive attitude, something largely absent in… More
Imagining a Positive Outcome Biases Subsequent Memories
Results from two studies suggest that imagining an upcoming event may ‘color’ memory for that event after the fact… More
Yale’s beloved happiness class is now on the internet for free
Happiness, they say, is infectious. Perhaps that is why the most popular course ever to be taught at Yale University—this… More
What’s the Best Way to Inspire Positive Environmental Behavior?
Type “climate change” into any search engine and the results aren’t difficult to predict: you’ll probably see a woeful polar… More