Why Timing Matters for Your Happiness and Success
A new book explains the psychology of time and how to harness it for greater well-being.
What We Can Learn from Sensation Seekers
Sensation seekers crave new and complex experiences, even when they're dangerous—but they can also teach us a few lessons about positive emotions.
How Do Young People Really Feel about Technology?
Young people don’t love their devices as much as we think they do. In fact, they want our help disconnecting from them.
How to Feel More Alive at Work
A new book leverages neuroscience to explain why work is a slog—and how to bring back our curiosity and excitement.
How Mindfulness Protects You as You Get Older
Older people tend to feel more positive than young people—and it might be because they're more mindful.
Episode 9: Can you Predict What Will Make You Happy?
Do memories of your past affect your happiness today? Susannah Cahalan was young and healthy when she was struck with a mysterious illness.…
Nine Scientists Share Their Favorite Happiness Practices
For the International Day of Happiness, here's some inspiration to help you feel more connected, grateful, and satisfied with your life.
Episode 5: Walk Outside with Inside Out’s Pete Docter
Do you dwell on the negative and let moments of joy just pass you by? Discover how the Academy Award-winning director of Inside Out got out…
When Are You Sacrificing Too Much in Your Relationship?
Close relationships require sacrifice. Here are seven questions to ask yourself before you give up too much.
Nine Scientists Share Their Favorite Happiness Practices
For the International Day of Happiness, here's some inspiration to help you feel more connected, grateful, and satisfied with your life.
How to Stop Being a Control Freak
The desire for control is a form of perfectionism, and we can alleviate it by learning to embrace uncertainty.
21 Ways to “Give Good No”
Saying “no” can be really hard. But Christine Carter has a three-step plan to get there.
Why We Should Help Boys Embrace All Their Feelings
We encourage a narrower range of emotions in boys than girls—and that can be harmful in the long run.
How to Stop Attachment Insecurity from Ruining Your Love Life
Do you have commitment, trust, and attachment issues? Science helped Meghan Laslocky—and it just might help you, too.
Tips for Keeping a Gratitude Journal
Here's a way to be thankful all year long.
How Teens Today Are Different from Past Generations
A psychologist mines big data on teens and finds many ways this generation—the “iGens"—is different from Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials.