Arthur Brooks is a professor of management practice at the Harvard Business School and the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a columnist at The Atlantic, ...

I’ve talked to a former chief of the F.B.I.’s Crisis Negotiation Unit about how to defuse tension during family holidays. Emergency-room doctors about how to avoid accidents. A neuroscientist who ...

What is happiness? Is it feeling good all the time? Having a sunny disposition? Feeling like you are where you want to be in life? Instead, Rubin says to ask yourself: "Will this make me happier?" ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Ever feel like your life is out of your hands? With the speed of life and everything that ...

Want a happy retirement? Of course, you do! The Dalai Lama himself described happiness as “the purpose of our lives.” At retirement, however, that desire often becomes an expectation. A white paper ...

Eric Zillmer, PsyD, is the Carl R. Pacifico Professor of Neuropsychology in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is also the director of The Happiness Lab at Drexel University, which examines what ...

In 2000, I published a book called “Rules for Aging,” a sort of how-to guide for navigating the later years of one’s life. I was 60 at the time and thought that I knew a thing or two about being old.