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 ...

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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 ...

When Yale immunologist Richard Flavell stepped to the front of the packed room with his electric guitar during a New Year's Eve party in 1991, he had already made a name for himself in science. But ...

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A group of researchers has some counterintuitive advice: Saving your poop now could save your life someday ... in the next couple of decades. Science and medicine have achieved ‘the impossible ...

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