In the world of popular psychology, the work of one giant figure is hard to avoid: Carl Jung, the onetime associate of Sigmund Freud who died more than 60 years ago. If you think you have a complex ...

Sometimes, the things we can do for our happiness are small and easy: getting a little sun, saying thank you, lending a hand. Other times, they take a little more practice and work. That’s the case ...

A person who continually seeks after pleasure is leading a life that is unsuited to human being - it would be better suited to a life of a grazing animal. In contrast, Eudaimonia, as Aristotle defined ...

Two years ago today, the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic. Now, after two years of living with various restrictions, many of us are entering a new phase, with ...

“Good life” courses can help prepare students to live more purposeful, meaningful lives, write Kristina Callina, Alicia Lynch and Michael Murray. Over the past 20 years, well-being indicators among ...

One of the great questions of our lives is "how do I want to live?" Psychological scientists increasingly focus on three different visions of a good life. First, a life of happiness tends to be ...