When you consider the “meaning” part of happiness, however, you realize that the search for your positive purpose in life does involve pain. There’s confusion in not knowing what you’d ...

People who deeply grasp the pain or happiness of others also process music differently, say researchers. The study in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience compared MRI scans of low- and high ...

But is the minimisation of pain really the essence of happiness? What if living a good life increases the pain we experience?

However, if you decide to stack the pain early in your day—for example, if you pay your bills in the morning before you go to work and then read the email from your friend on your lunch break ...

I do a lot of public speaking for business leaders about how using the science of happiness can improve their organization ...

Pain, Pleasure and the Pursuit of Happiness The search for happiness is foremost in people's thoughts, but is it really as complicated as we think?

Philip Brickman was an expert in the psychology of happiness, but he couldn’t make his own pain go away.

Language reveals ancient definitions of happiness. It is a striking fact that in every Indo-European language, without exception, going all the way back to ancient Greek, the word for happiness is a ...

Humans aren’t supposed to be eternally happy, so why do we continue to force it? Pretending pain is abnormal or pathological will only lead to feelings of inadequacy and frustration ...