Neuroscience Hacks for Enhancing Happiness

Want to make some New Year's resolutions that will enrich your life and increase your happiness? Try these neuroscience hacks for enhancing your happiness by harnessing your attention!

Want to make some New Year's resolutions that will enrich your life and increase your happiness? Try these neuroscience hacks for enhancing your happiness by harnessing your attention!

One Way to Tame Your "YOLO" Mindset

Considering your own mortality may be the key to living a good life.

Considering your own mortality may be the key to living a good life.

Stop Striving for Happy: Try Well-Being Instead

If you feel like you "should" feel happy, but you find that happiness is elusive, consider cultivating well-being instead. Here's how.

If you feel like you "should" feel happy, but you find that happiness is elusive, consider cultivating well-being instead. Here's how.

The Essential Ingredient for Happiness and Well-Being

A new study discusses a key determinant of moment-to-moment changes in happiness and well-being.

A new study discusses a key determinant of moment-to-moment changes in happiness and well-being.

Parental Involvement in Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Eating Disorders

The role of parents in CBT-E for adolescents with eating disorders is to support the implementation of one-to-one treatment, not to drive it.

The role of parents in CBT-E for adolescents with eating disorders is to support the implementation of one-to-one treatment, not to drive it.

What Couples Can Do When Marriage Stops Being Fun

A decline in relationship satisfaction is inevitable in almost all marriages, but successful couples learn how to find opportunities for positive interactions.

A decline in relationship satisfaction is inevitable in almost all marriages, but successful couples learn how to find opportunities for positive interactions.

Nature Doesn't Want Us to Have Too Much Fun

Unrestrained access to pleasure could threaten our survival.

Unrestrained access to pleasure could threaten our survival.

The Benefits of True Crime and Horror Movies

Is your favorite true-crime podcast rotting your brain or preparing you to be fast on your feet?

Is your favorite true-crime podcast rotting your brain or preparing you to be fast on your feet?

Antidepressant Drugs Might Work by Changing Our Expectations

How do antidepressants work? Research suggests that they change how we learn about the world, which influences our level of happiness.

How do antidepressants work? Research suggests that they change how we learn about the world, which influences our level of happiness.

What Is the Good Life?

What is the "Good Life"?

What is the "Good Life"?

Evolution Explains Puzzling Aspects of the Human Mind

Evolutionary thinking resolves several mysteries and offers us the gift of self-knowledge along the way.

Evolutionary thinking resolves several mysteries and offers us the gift of self-knowledge along the way.

The New Neuroscience of Pleasure

Unraveling the brain mechanisms involved in the experience of pleasure and happiness could point to what human flourishing truly means.

Unraveling the brain mechanisms involved in the experience of pleasure and happiness could point to what human flourishing truly means.

Is Sexual Boredom Inevitable in a Long-term Relationship?

Why has your sex life become boring? It may be because of this.

Why has your sex life become boring? It may be because of this.

Everybody Hurts Sometimes

Finding yourself feeling badly lately? It's easy to rush past uncomfortable feelings without realizing it. But they are critical for improving yourself and your relationships.

Finding yourself feeling badly lately? It's easy to rush past uncomfortable feelings without realizing it. But they are critical for improving yourself and your relationships.

The Rules of the Game

How innocent is leisure? What is the line between seeking pleasure and decadent dissipation?

How innocent is leisure? What is the line between seeking pleasure and decadent dissipation?

Must We Always Be Striving For a Better Life?

Are we allowed to just want to be here?

Are we allowed to just want to be here?

5 Reasons You May Be Feeling Relationship Boredom

Are you feeling bored in your relationship? Read on for some of the main reasons this happens and tips for working on it.

Are you feeling bored in your relationship? Read on for some of the main reasons this happens and tips for working on it.

How to Get More Pleasure Out of Everyday Life

Becoming a better self-observer can increase your happiness. These five tips can help.

Becoming a better self-observer can increase your happiness. These five tips can help.

Happiness Is Not Always Joyful

When we stop seeking endless pleasure, true happiness can finally be found.

When we stop seeking endless pleasure, true happiness can finally be found.

Is Luxury Worth It for You? For Your Holiday Gift Giving?

A self-assessment: For you, do the benefits outweigh the liabilities?

A self-assessment: For you, do the benefits outweigh the liabilities?

Repeated Giving Feels Good

For most experiences in life, no matter how good it makes you feel the first time it happens, it feels less good the more you experience it. Not so for giving.

For most experiences in life, no matter how good it makes you feel the first time it happens, it feels less good the more you experience it. Not so for giving.

Would Winning the Lottery Really Change Your Life?

Think you would quit your job and retire on a tropical island if you won the lottery? Don't be so sure. Research reveals the surprising habits of lottery winners.

Think you would quit your job and retire on a tropical island if you won the lottery? Don't be so sure. Research reveals the surprising habits of lottery winners.

5 Ways Money Can Buy You Happiness

Who says money can't buy you happiness? Here are 5 research-proven ways that money—even a small amount—can boost your well-being.

Who says money can't buy you happiness? Here are 5 research-proven ways that money—even a small amount—can boost your well-being.

Why Aren't Screens Making Us a Lot Happier?

Our screens provide us with many benefits. One would think they would increase our happiness, too, but that doesn't seem to be the case. What's going on?

Our screens provide us with many benefits. One would think they would increase our happiness, too, but that doesn't seem to be the case. What's going on?

How to Be Happy: 23 Ways to Be Happier

The complete guide to boosting happiness, according to science.

The complete guide to boosting happiness, according to science.

Money and Happiness

Happiness research by economists offers interesting insight, but no final resolution, to the problem of the hedonic treadmill.

Happiness research by economists offers interesting insight, but no final resolution, to the problem of the hedonic treadmill.

Happy Pie

Some say that 50% of happiness is due to genes, 10% to circumstance, and the rest to what you do. I want to believe that but can’t.

Some say that 50% of happiness is due to genes, 10% to circumstance, and the rest to what you do. I want to believe that but can’t.