There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.

In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.

The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.

Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.

It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.