There’s a brief, telling scene in Evan S. Connell’s underrated classic “Mrs. Bridge” in which the title character, on holiday in Europe, meets an expat who tells her that he lives in Paris because ...

Which stage of life brings more happiness: The bloom of youth or the wisdom of age? Until recently, research converged on the latter: Older people are happier, with happiness peaking when people reach ...

If you studied economics or business, you might be familiar with Goodhart’s law. Named after British economist Charles Goodhart, it states “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good ...

Researchers have a new explanation for why we experience the "happiness paradox"—a phenomenon wherein trying to make ourselves happier actually makes us less happy. Studies have documented the paradox ...

When fewer people belong to unions and unions have less power, the impact goes beyond wages and job security. Those changes can hurt public health and make people more unhappy. In the first study on ...