Are you happy? A new study by Gallup that measures happiness levels found that Finland is now the happiest country in the world. And here in the United States? The U.S. fell from 15 th down to 23 rd ...

There is disagreement among researchers regarding the age and stage of life when people are most happy. It is a complicated issue with many factors – but a number of studies have come to the same ...

Having a midlife crisis may sound like a cliche or the plot of a bad movie. But the reality is that there is a widespread theory that your happiness takes a dip in midlife before rebounding at age 50.

Researchers observed an inverted U-shape, where middle-aged adults reported the highest level of happiness, or no significant age-related trend at all. Happiness over one’s lifetime has been popularly ...

How happy are we? The Gallup organization and the United Nations recently released their annual World Happiness Report, and the results are mixed. Globally “inequality of happiness” has increased 20% ...

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 ...

Every year, the World Happiness Report ranks 146 countries around the globe by their average level of happiness. Scandinavian countries usually top the list, the U.S. falls someplace in the mid-teens, ...

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 ...

“I hope I die before I get old,” wrote Pete Townsend of The Who in 1965, neatly encapsulating our culture’s veneration of youth — and disdain for those unfortunate souls who no longer possess it. The ...

We spend a large portion of our lives searching for things that make us happy. What works? That depends, but psychologists and happiness researchers have identified a few common elements that tend to ...