Why are some people happier than others? And how can we improve our quality of life? Those are the two main questions I have been trying to answer for more than a decade. I run the Happiness Research ...

You’ve probably heard of “hygge,” the Danish concept of coziness that became all the rage a few years ago. But you may not have heard of the man who made it internet-famous. But even happiness experts ...

As the CEO of the Happiness Research Institute, my work is dedicated to measuring and understanding what improves people's wellbeing and overall quality of life. We're based in Copenhagen, the capital ...

We all want to be happy — and for decades, psychologists have tried to figure out how we might achieve that blissful state. The field’s many surveys and experiments have pointed to a variety of ...

The U-shaped happiness curve dictates that "happiness rises initially to a peak around age 30 and then declines into midlife and then rises again after age 70," according to David Blanchflower, a ...