NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Dr. Robert Waldinger, one of the authors of The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study on Happiness. If you could change one thing about your ...

Amid this backdrop, a 2022 paper published in Current Directions in Psychological Science offers some hope ... who go on to not only recover but to enjoy key aspects of the good life.” Similarly, when ...

75-year-long research found that the friends' views of the participants, in that very, very long study, were the things that ...

The “good life” and “good death” are closely ... Yu, a double major in computer science and philosophy on the philosophy and literature track, said that during the class it was ...

But “feeling it is only half the equation,” said Philip Watkins, a professor of psychology at Eastern Washington University and the author of “Gratitude and the Good Life.” Expressing ...

These observations encouraged the research team to think about longevity (years of life) and healthspan (years ... a niche for himself as a curator of science news, scrutinizing emerging research ...

Healthspan describes the number of years a person has lived a healthy, active, disease-free life. However, the number of years those people were living in good health did not correspondingly increase.

The past few years have raised some hard questions about the science of well-being ... all over the world regularly fill out surveys meant to measure happiness in life. And every year, one major ...