About a year ago, I was presenting my project at the IU Intensive Freshman Seminar conference. My group and I had run an experiment on how empathetic professional runners are depending on their speed ...

We often think we know people, but the truth is, we only see what they allow us to see. Sometimes, people who seem the happiest are actually hiding a sea of sadness underneath that cheerful exterior.

There was a time when sadness was fashionable, which is something difficult to imagine nowadays, given our current cultural reliance on mandatory positivity and happiness. The time was the beginning ...

A new Berkeley Psychology research study suggests that worrying too much about happiness can actually make you feel less happy and even more depressed. The research, which was published in August in ...

When you think about the features of your life that make you happy, you’re likely to count off such factors as how well your relationships are going, whether you have enough money to pay your bills, ...

You would think happy people would prefer to listen to happy music. Lyrics that speak to their positive mood, bringing them cheer and joy. Yet, sad music tends to have a longer-lasting appeal for many ...

Happiness is a worthy pursuit. But fixating too much on achieving it often leads to bad feelings when you fall short—which ultimately makes you less happy. That’s the finding of a new study published ...

When Sarah Ruhl received a MacArthur "genius" Fellowship in 2006, she was described as "a playwright creating vivid and adventurous theatrical works that poignantly juxtapose the mundane aspects of ...