The idea of the midlife crisis took hold decades ago and never went away, despite a lack of scientific evidence. The latest data should finally settle the score.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Human happiness is an amalgam of many influences, ranging from good and bad personal events, to positive, or negative emotions. If you live in Finland, for example, you appear to have an advantage.

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% ...

Fitness device maker Garmin, in collaboration with researchers at Harvard University and the University of Oxford, has announced the Health and Happiness Study: The Health and Happiness Study will be ...

Improving happiness after 50 — or at any age Since the study suggests that the U-shaped curve of well-being may not be a universal feature of aging, but rather a psychosocial phenomenon shaped by ...