Whether we’ve been trying to improve our exercise, eating, sleep, or happiness, self-reflection is one of the most practical ...

A new book by Kinsey Institute scholar Justin Garcia explains some of the tensions in modern romance and how to work through ...

Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we’re offering a special Happiness & ...

Our monthly Happiness Calendar for Educators is a day-by-day guide to building kinder, happier schools where everyone belongs ...

A new paper looks at how stress affects children's development, and how parents can help protect kids from harm.

Most of us try to listen harder when a conversation gets difficult. Here’s a more useful shift: Listen more deliberately.

Too often, parents and teachers try to force kids to apologize and forgive. But research suggests there’s a better way that ...

They found a connection between regular acts of forgiveness and a rise in the sense of psychological, more than physical, ...

Can you feel alone in a crowd? Unloved in a decades-long marriage? Indeed, that’s often when loneliness strikes hardest: when you experience social connections and seemingly intimate relationships, ...

Ever since I was introduced to mindfulness, I have contemplated the image of the monk spending his days meditating in a cave deep in the foothills of the Himalayas. It seems like enlightenment might ...

Sometimes, the things we can do for our happiness are small and easy: getting a little sun, saying thank you, lending a hand. Other times, they take a little more practice and work. That’s the case ...

On a typical day, you experience numerous fleeting exchanges with people you don’t know, often without a word: a quick smile of acknowledgement as someone holds the door, a moment of eye contact to ...