It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

Some achieve a reputation for great successes when in fact all they have done is take chances that reasonable people wouldn't take.

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are.

One study found that people who just thought about watching their favorite movie actually raised their endorphin levels by 27 percent.