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The documentary presents a hopeful story of recovery. Here’s what this means for you.
Performing small acts of kindness for others can provide a boost to well-being. Research supports the old adage: in helping others, you really can help yourself.
During times of stress and change, people are often advised to practice self-care by looking after themselves, yet what about the benefits of showing kindness to others?
Isolation and exclusion are common and damaging experiences.
The U-shaped curve of age and happiness doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, a new study finds.
What research tells us about what to keep and what to cut back on.
Pessimism, as explored by the philosopher Schopenhauer, offers tools to come to terms with the idea that refusing to relentlessly pursue happiness is perhaps the most reasonable attitude.
A sociologist took a critical look at the cherished career advice to ‘follow your passion.’ What she found is that this advice often brings unintended consequences.
According to a recent study, optimists were more likely to live into their nineties.
A scholar of digital religion and Buddhism argues that not all Western Buddhism practice is inauthentic. Here’s a way to know what’s real.
Finland was recently ranked, for the fifth year in a row, as the world’s happiest country. Trust in others in society plays a large role in what makes people there – and elsewhere – happy.
This important benefit does more than just help parents in terms of dollars and cents.
Fixing the climate crisis can be a source of pleasure and not just pain.
Plus, the social pressure some people feel to be happy in the world’s happiest countries. Listen to The Conversation Weekly.
People are obsessed with finding happiness. But what if
They say to improve your mood you should fake a smile and roll with the crowd. But research suggests the more pressure you feel to be happy, the worse you’ll end up feeling.
Age is no longer the only definition of midlife. An expert in aging explains why.
Could bringing back words with positive meanings make us happier?
Compared to people who aren’t as good at math, people who are better at math are more happy when they have high incomes and less happy when they have lower incomes.
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Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Senior Lecturer in Psychological Interventions, University of Lancashire
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Associate Professor, School of Psychology, UNSW
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Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, University of Manchester
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Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry, King's College London
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Honorary Research Associate at the Behavioural Science Centre, University of Stirling
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Professor of Psychology, Monmouth University
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Lecturer in Positive Psychology, University of East London
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Professor of Data Science; Director, Adelaide Data Science Centre, Adelaide University
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Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
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Research Psychologist, Health Behaviour Research Centre, UCL
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Professor of Economics, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University