Seven Ways to Shift Your Difficult Emotions
A new book gives guidance on research-based ways to manage our emotions more effectively without suppressing them.
Your Happiness Calendar for February 2025
This month, spread love in your corner of the world.
How 7 Days Can Transform Your Relationship
From daily check-ins to meaningful compliments and planned dates nights, we explore a 7-day love challenge to help couples strengthen their…
What Role Does Pleasure Play in Happiness?
Happiness is multifaceted, and we should be wary of discounting pleasure and enjoyment as shallow or self-indulgent.
Happiness Break: How to Awaken Joy, with Spring Washam
Cultivate more joy in your life with this practice led by meditation teacher and author Spring Washam.
The Best Greater Good Articles of 2024
We round up the most-read and highly rated Greater Good articles from the past year.
Why Dancing Is The Best Medicine
Dance, one of humanity's oldest art forms, traces its roots back over 10,000 years. Its rhythmic movements are known to release endorphins, strengthen…
In Memory of Three Great Psychologists We Lost in 2024
Greater Good honors Frans de Waal, Daniel Kahneman, and Philip Zimbardo.
The Top 10 Insights from the “Science of a Meaningful Life” in 2024
Our team names the most provocative and influential findings published during this past year.
How to Stop Overthinking Your Happiness
The search for happiness can make you unhappy—but there is a research-tested solution.
Your Happiness Calendar for February 2025
This month, spread love in your corner of the world.
Our Favorite Books of 2024
Greater Good’s editors pick the most thought-provoking, practical, and inspirational science books of the year.
Why Are Some People Happy Even as They’re Dying?
Research suggests that people nearing death talk about their experience as more positive than we imagine it would be.
How 7 Days Can Transform Your Relationship
From daily check-ins to meaningful compliments and planned dates nights, we explore a 7-day love challenge to help couples strengthen their…
The Science of Humming (The Science of Happiness Podcast)
Did you know humming can soothe your nervous system? We explore the stress-relieving power of Bhramari Pranayama, also known as humming bee breath,…
What If You Pursued What’s Interesting Instead of Happiness?
A new book explores why we should seek a “psychologically rich life” and how to do it.