Following this little-known path can lead to a good life, happiness expert says: A lot of people struggle to happiness and meaning--but following this little-known path can put you on the path to ...

As a poignant reminder of our shared humanity, we tend to derive purpose from similar sources despite the remar ...

Arthur Brooks, Harvard University professor and New York Times bestselling author, speaks at the Deseret News’ 175th ...

CBS News contributor Arthur C. Brooks, a social scientist and happiness expert, speaks to "CBS Mornings" about finding ...

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Most Americans are familiar with these words, even if they don’t know that they are contained in the introduction to the Declaration of Independence, the ...

Guest columnist Nicole Schwartz is a senior psychology major and neuroscience minor at Baldwin Wallace University. After exploring the meaning of happiness in her last semester with Professor Jen ...

Psychologists have long found that conservatism is linked to happiness and meaning in life, but a new study reveals that liberalism is associated with its own mental upside: psychologically rich and ...

There are several books on my shelves that have the word “meaning” in their title. One I've turned to on multiple occasions, Viktor Frankl’s well-known book, “Man’s Search for Meaning,” because if ...

What feels fulfilling at one stage of life may feel hollow at another. To make sense of these shifts, we need a framework that accounts for who we are, not just what we feel.

As a teenager, I spent a summer abroad living with a French family as part of a foreign exchange program. None of my French family spoke English, and it wasn’t always easy to communicate or understand ...

Anné H. Verhoef does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

They were making a bolder claim that became the foundation of the American Dream: that people could build meaningful lives if government protected liberty and then got out of the way. That idea still ...