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Although related, happiness and life satisfaction are not the same things. Happiness is an immediate, in-the-moment experience; although enjoyable, it is ultimately fleeting. A healthy life certainly includes moments of happiness, but happiness alone usually does not make for a fulfilling and satisfying life. According to Daniel Gilbert, professor of Psychology at Harvard University, the…

F alling stocks, wounded unicorns and rising interest rates translated into a down year for the world’s wealthiest people.

Authors Fritz Gilbert and Eric Weigel discuss what preretirees miss when planning their own retirements.

An exit interview with outgoing CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.

The entrepreneurial odyssey, replete with its rollercoaster ups and downs, can truly flourish under the light of happiness.

We’ve heard the arguments: Civil discourse is dead. Social media has made us all self-obsessed. People are meaner and ruder than ever. And with constant news of the war in

Perhaps no political promise is more potent or universal than the vow to restore a golden age. From Caesar Augustus to the Medicis and Adolf Hitler, from President Xi Jinping of China and President “Bongbong” Marcos of the Philippines to Donald Trump’s “Make America …

Our biased attention means we’ll always feel like we’re living in dark times, and our biased memory means we’ll always feel like the past was brighter.

Adam Mastroianni was always bothered by anecdotal claims that people are becoming less kind, respectful and trustworthy over time. So he took a deep dive into such claims: he wrote a PhD dissertation....

In 1879, the German scientist Wilhelm Wundt established the very first psychology laboratory which marked the foundation of psychology as a science apart from biology and the domain of philosophy.