It is easy to get bogged down in bad news and mean interactions, but a new report finds that people tend to be kinder than ...

The United States fell to its lowest-ever place on the World Happiness Report, released on International Day of Happiness, ...

Finland Tops the List Again For the eighth consecutive year, Finland has been named the world's happiest country, according ...

Americans, in particular, also tend to underestimate the empathy of other people, the report says, because of increasing ...

Happiness is linked to having a strong immune system, helping prevent illness and making symptoms less severe. For example, in a group of people exposed to a flu virus, those who had typically ...

It can be easy to fall into the trap of thinking we need more to make us happy—more space, more stuff, more money. But material goods don’t always do the trick. Instead, happiness comes from a ...