Did you know that there are multiple types of well-being? Each type of well-being flows from our current worldview—and our worldview changes across time (e.g., Cook-Grueter, 2014). Beliefs tend to be ...

Seven years ago, my colleagues and I wrote an article that committed heresy. We disagreed with Aristotle. This is not something mere mortals are supposed to do. After all, he is one of the smartest ...

Most people in life just want true happiness. While money seems to make things better and seems like the logical way to bring true happiness, there is a lot of research that tells us differently. In ...

We used to have a very different understanding of what it means to live well. Credit...By Joanne Joo Supported by By Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah is The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist ...

The way you view happiness influences the way you experience it. Here’s how having less can actually make you more happy. Both clinical wisdom and empirical research agree that the more we fixate on ...

What truly makes life satisfying? Is it the joy found in a steady job, a loving family, or a healthy lifestyle? Or does happiness come more from within—a state of mind that colors how you see ...