New book offers 12 scientific steps to help you get what you want from life. Jan. 8, 2008 — -- Don't wait for happiness to find you. Go out and get it with tips from "The How of Happiness: A ...

We think we need greater self-control to be happier. But a new study suggests the arrow of causation points the other way.

The new year is a time when we all try to turn over a new leaf by getting rid of bad habits and developing new ones in their place. But as we all know from personal experience, most New Year’s ...

Trying to be happy often makes people less happy. This conundrum is called the happiness paradox, and it has been studied for more than a decade. Unlike many goals, which produce better results the ...

A new study finds people who habitually try to be happier also tend to have less willpower. Researchers have a new explanation for why we experience the "happiness paradox" -- a phenomenon wherein ...

Happiness and well-being depend on how much volition, choice and control people feel they have over their life—their sense of ...

At the start of 2025, Sam Maglio, PhD, a professor of marketing and psychology at the University of Toronto Scarborough, made a resolution that he felt could defeat the so-called happiness paradox. He ...

According to the 2024 World Happiness Survey, the United States is no longer one of the 20 happiest countries. It’s pretty ...