Dr. Tracy Brower writes about happiness and the future of work. It’s been 16 months of turmoil and chances are you’ve had plenty of emotions roiling within. From frustration, grief or anxiety ...

Mark Schulz has spent the better part of a decade leading the world's longest running study on happiness. This is what its ...

Using language to describe the sensations and emotions we call feelings is limiting, as our feelings are so subjective and abstract in ... Examining our feelings of happiness and pleasure can ...

Scientists believe happy crying is a form of emotional homeostasis: a way of bringing us back to equilibrium after an ...

In fact, it led to mixed emotional outcomes ... Instead of chasing happiness as an abstract goal, it may be more effective to pursue specific activities that are known to enhance well-being ...

Observers rated them on a scale of one to five for the extent to which they expressed positive emotions like joy, happiness, excitement, enthusiasm, and contentment. Ten years later, the researchers ...

Humans may be able to communicate positive emotions like happiness through the smell of our sweat, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for ...

What if, after two millenniums of debating the relative benefits of varying types of happiness, we could focus on another, more enduring, more impactful emotional state that will bring us both ...

Simply ignoring or denying stress, or suppressing your negative emotions and pretending everything is just fine, will not lead to enduring happiness. In most cases, negative emotions are ...