Guest columnist Nicole Schwartz is a senior psychology major and neuroscience minor at Baldwin Wallace University. After exploring the meaning of happiness in her last semester with Professor Jen ...

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If I ask you whether you’re happy, what would you say? There are, of course, a number of ways to answer that question. You might say “Yes;” you might say “No;” you might equivocate and say something ...

So you’re between the ages of 13 and 24. What makes you happy? A worried, weary parent might imagine the answer to sound something like this: Sex, drugs, a little rock ’n’ roll. Maybe some cash, or at ...

Bestselling author and columnist Arthur Brooks is inspiring people through his writing to embrace happiness. The behavioral ...

But what really sustains us, especially as we age, is contentment.” Happiness — or contentment, fulfillment or life satisfaction — carries different meanings for different people. For some people, ...

These five ways to cultivate happiness are part of a program of increasing your psychological flexibility. How to better cope ...

In Flourish, rock star pioneer of the positive psychology movement and former President of the American Psychological Association Martin Seligman (2011) confessed—“I used to think that the topic of ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. I visited one of my clients, a tech company that used to be a startup many years ago and now ...

We are accustomed to the utilization of equations in financial planning, and while most of those tend to be numerical, there are a growing number of formulas that apply to the utilization of our ...