Could understanding other cultures’ concepts of joy and happiness help us to reshape our own?
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Mere economic models don’t take into account the full complexity of our relationship with alcohol.
Fall in love, have a baby, watch your happiness and satisfaction plummet. Psychology researchers know the transition to parenthood can be rough on relationships.
Our feelings of self-worth and contentment are no longer the preserve of writers and artists. Science has made measurement of our well-being a viable alternative to the banalities of economic output.
Coming into a fortune is definitely not the route to happiness. Here’s what you can do to stay chipper.
After the middle years of their life, people report increasing levels of happiness. An expert unpicks the data.
Research shows that when people share happy news on social media, they make their friends - and extended social network - happy too. Picking up on this trend is a new swathe of “good news” websites.
We can pursue our own happiness to the exclusion of the real world, but how meaningful can that be? Far better to engage with life and both the happiness and sadness it brings along the way.
Happiness might seem like a worthy goal but it will invariably be disrupted by unwelcome negative feelings. Far better to seek contentment, which can serve as a foundation for both joy and pleasure.
Women are supposed to be happy about motherhood – if they’re not their parenting is open to question. We have seen a ‘Parenting Hate’ backlash against this, but what’s needed most is better social support.
While the economics of happiness has boomed, the economics of unhappiness has been neglected. Yet there are many objective sources of unhappiness that good economic research might tackle productively.
To pose the question of whether we can love happiness feels a bit like asking whether the Pope is a Catholic. Most of us believe we not only can love happiness, but that we should!
Much of the fear of cancer arises from a lack of control, so I’m at my happiest when a patient with a new diagnosis comes in bewildered and shaken and leaves my office feeling a modicum of control.
Pixar’s new film, Inside Out, shows that chasing happiness along won’t necessarily bring well-being, which is a view backed by the latest psychological research.
Watching cute cat videos and looking at their online pictures may not be a waste of time. A new study has found doing so could boost energy levels and increase feelings of happiness.
Susan Oman interviews Goldsmith’s Will Davies, author of The Happiness Industry.
Large study reveals how children rate their happiness and what they’re most dissatisfied with.
A lifestyle based on aggressive consumption stresses the Earth’s resources and, beyond a certain point of comfort, does not actually foster human fulfillment or happiness.
Lottery winners are euphoric very briefly before they settle back to their normal level of happiness or unhappiness.
The idea that we can achieve happiness by maximising pleasure and minimising pain is both intuitive and popular. The truth is, however, very different.
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Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Senior Lecturer in Psychological Interventions, University of Central Lancashire
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Associate Professor, School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, University of Manchester
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Honorary Research Associate at the Behavioural Science Centre, University of Stirling
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Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry, King's College London
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Professor of Economics, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Ashbel Smith Professor, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
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