EVA DICKERSON Now you know! DACHER KELTNER Those were clips from a video created by college student Eva Dickerson, and it shows how powerful a compliment can be, and how it can boost someone else’s ...

Can the secret to happiness really be boiled down to a single word? In his latest book, Unshakeable, Tony Robbins professes, “In fact, I can tell you the secret to happiness in one word: progress.” As ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Morsa Images/ DigitalVision via Getty Images Choosing your word of the year is about far more than selecting a random word. You ...

Swedish soccer star Zlatan is associated with happiness, but not iPhones. A new study suggests that our collective picture of what makes us happy is more about relationships, and less about things.

What does it mean to be “happy”? Our Declaration of Independence, an absolute banger of a foundational document, famously lists “the pursuit of happiness” as one of our three inalienable rights—the ...

We all want to be happy. That’s obvious. But how much would people pay for a moment of happiness? Researchers did a survey — and the answer was about $80. (Suddenly heroin is looking pretty cheap, and ...