"[T]raumatic experiences as a child may have a long-lasting impact on the person’s perception of happiness."

"[An] accelerated heart can make people feel anxious... furrowed brow can make them feel angry... stretch of a smile can make them feel happy.”

Misery appreciates and validates the company of its kind, which is familiar and comforting.

"It [also] turns out generosity can actually be contagious... Kindness can actually spread," the researchers concluded.

The predisposition to dissatisfaction may be an evolutionary trait.

Couples who constantly grew as individuals too, were found to be more satisfied and committed, besides having better self-esteem.

Money does make us happier -- at least to an extent.

Research shows we perceive unfailingly cheerful people as ignorant, naive, or not capable of critical thinking.

A "happiness curriculum" could be useful in mitigating the pandemic's impact on the mental health of students.

Linguists argue that the way different cultures experience joy depends on what words they have to describe it.

A fear of being happy comes from a belief that happiness cannot be stable or constant, and that joy will lead to disappointment.

Gendered expectations and a lack of supportive policies and resources erode parents' life satisfaction, experts say.

If you've ever smiled at someone while absolutely hating them, you've smiled the 'contempt smile.'

Joy is about (adding up) the little things.

A global poll shows we were all stressed and worried -- but also somehow happy.

It's officially science -- in both hemispheres.

In a study that feels beyond overdue — and yet extraordinarily timely, given the recent, rampant conversations (including our own Women & Work panel last year) around India’s leaking pipeline of professional women — researchers at the University of Ghent 

It’s not often that people congregate to discuss happiness, as much as our lives might be consumed in search of it. But that is just what happened last Friday, when Dr. Raj Raghunathan, a professor at the University of Texas’s