Happiness, according to Martin Seligman, is partly influenced by our genes and environment, but a significant 40% depends on ...

For decades, we’ve been told that happiness is a combination of success, wealth, and fame. But what if the true key to a fulfilling life has nothing to do with any of that? A groundbreaking, nearly 90 ...

I’ve talked to a former chief of the F.B.I.’s Crisis Negotiation Unit about how to defuse tension during family holidays. Emergency-room doctors about how to avoid accidents. A neuroscientist who ...

One of the biggest gripes I have about my academic field of social science is that it explains a lot about human behavior but is very short on prescriptions for how to live day to day. Even when it ...