AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan long ago dispensed with the notion of gross national product as a gauge of well-being. The king decreed that his people would aspire to ...

Texas is the 39th happiest state in the nation, a study released Tuesday by WalletHub found. To determine which were the happiest, WalletHub examined the 50 states across three areas: emotional and ...

Maybe it's the heat and humidity. Or maybe it's due to a slow economy. But for whatever reason, many of the unhappiest states in the U.S. are in the South, according to a new ranking. The states were ...

New research suggests you don’t need relentless positivity to benefit your body. Here’s how a surprisingly small dose of happiness could make a measurable difference to your health.

Research participants who had seen a picture of a fast-food burger and fries subsequently rated themselves less happy upon viewing 10 photographs of natural scenic beauty (4.86, on average, versus ...

Ha Vinh, the former program director of the Gross National Happiness Center, debuts with a novel program on how to build happier communities, offering a “step-by-step approach to cultivating and ...

In “The Pursuit of Happiness,” Director of Education James Pawelski of Penn's Positive Psychology Center hopes to help students define and apply different ways of developing happiness in their lives.