How Children Think About Their Own Well-Being Online
Researchers asked kids around the world about their digital lives and what kinds of online experiences would make them happy.
How Emotional Extremes Can Stress Your Heart
A broken heart can compromise the health of your actual heart—and so can extreme happiness.
Happiness Break: Walk Your Way to Calm (Guided Meditation)
A few slow, mindful paces can lower your cortisol and make you more at ease. Psychologist Dacher Keltner guides you through this Walking Meditation.
How Self-Compassionate Are Different Groups of People?
Just over 20,000 people took the GGSC self-compassion quiz—and we analyzed the results across different ages, races, and genders.
How to Have Hard Conversations on College Campuses
Educators and campus leaders share what they've learned about overcoming divides among college students.
Thinking About Reaching Out to Someone? Science Says Do It
Two new studies find that connecting with someone is even nicer than we expect.
Episode 121: 36 Questions to Spark Intimacy
What if you could fall in love, or forge deep connections, in just 45 minutes? Our guests, Kristen Meinzer and Jolenta Greenberg of By The…
How Regrets Can Help You Make Better Decisions
A new book explains what makes people prone to regret and how it affects our lives, for better and worse.
Intellectual Humility Quiz
Do you question your own beliefs and welcome different ways of thinking?
What to Do When You Never Feel Good Enough
Are you stuck in constant self-judgment? In a new book, a clinical psychologist suggests a better way to feel good about yourself.
Four Ways to Stop Imagining the Worst Will Happen
If you have a tendency to worry about worst-case scenarios, it's possible to get your brain on a different track.
Two Keys to a Calmer Emotional Life
New studies are investigating why life is such an emotional rollercoaster for certain people, and how to cultivate more stable happiness.
How Do You Know if You’re Actually Humble?
There are ways to figure out how aware you are of your own limitations—and to cultivate intellectual humility.
How Your Siblings Can Make You Happier
Sibling relationships affect us more than we probably realize—and we can work on improving them at any age.
Your Happiness Calendar for August 2022
This month, get creative and connect with your body.
Four Ways Dancing Makes You Happier
Human bodies are hardwired for dance, which might explain why it's so good for our health, happiness, and relationships.