"Happiness" Blogs & Blog Posts

The World Happiness Report found that boomers feel happier and less lonely than younger generations, even with fewer social interactions. Here's why.

Vivien Arguelles, 82, knows it's not easy to make friends later in life. But she has a simple solution: talking to people who share her passions.

 Chart is from the 2024 World Happiness Report...

Patricia Backlund, 81, said she thinks loneliness among older people can sometimes be fear-based. So she started a weekly meetup to make it easier.

The commonly-held belief is that there’s a correlation between your happiness at work and your productivity. And while this assertion has been borne out in decades of research studies focusing on how happiness can make you more productive, those st...

Let’s take it back to that introductory psychology course you took in college for a moment: Remember Maslow’s hierarchy of needs? It’s that pyramid-shaped chart with physiological needs at the bottom and self-actualization at the top. It’s gr...

The claim that “money doesn’t buy happiness” has always been contested, and for good reason: If you don’t have the money to meet your basic needs, then it’s lack will certainly cause misery. The relationship between money and happiness has...