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 ...

What's your definition of happiness? Research in the field of positive psychology often defines a happy person as someone who experiences frequent positive emotions, such as joy, interest, and pride, ...

Recently I noticed a young man at my church struggling with a very unhappy newborn. He wore a fashionable white sweater now stained with spit-up. Many in our culture might look upon this scene with ...

In Flourish, rock star pioneer of the positive psychology movement and former President of the American Psychological Association Martin Seligman (2011) confessed—“I used to think that the topic of ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. I visited one of my clients, a tech company that used to be a startup many years ago and now ...

If I ask you whether you’re happy, what would you say? There are, of course, a number of ways to answer that question. You might say “Yes;” you might say “No;” you might equivocate and say something ...

Harvard professor and "How to Build a Life" columnist Arthur C. Brooks answers the internet's burning questions about "happiness." Does anyone else feel depression after completing a goal? Can social ...

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 ...