March 2011

I've already noted that I'm a bit tied up these last few days and also over the weekend so my apologies for not posting any longer or more meaningful happiness articles but...

A new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper called “International Happiness,” by economists David G. Blanchflower of Dartmouth College in the U.S. and Andrew J. Oswald  of the University of Warwick in England, offers some insights. Blanchflower and Oswald give an overview of findings, in...

A review of more than 160 studies of human and animal subjects has found "clear and compelling evidence" that – all else being equal – happy people tend to live longer and experience better health than their unhappy peers. The study, in the journal Applied Psychology:...