What is the secret of happiness? Sonja Lyubomirsky, a distinguished professor of psychology at UC Riverside, used to dread that question; she considered it reductive. As a leading expert on the ...

Psychologists say that after the need for food and shelter, humans want to feel valued. But that need usually goes unmet.

NEW YORK -- How are you feeling today? "Meh"? If that's the case, you're far from alone. Doctors say a growing number of people are feeling "meh" these days, but as CBS New York's John Dias explains, ...

We all know the feeling: that fluttery gut sensation we’ve been told we’re supposed to have when the love of our life catches our glance across a crowded room. The same feeling that ought to arise ...

A conversation between Harvard Business School’s Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams on shifting your mindset and energy at work. Worker disengagement is on the rise around the world. Even those of us ...

When you see a butterfly touch down on a flower, you might feel a sense of joy because it reminds you of how delicate our world is. At the same time, you might feel a deep sadness well up realizing ...

The simple feeling of being is inescapable. It is not something that needs to be created or generated or sustained or practiced. It is what is here already. As it is sometimes said in the Tibetan ...

In difficult life circumstances, you’re bound to feel anger, sadness, anxiety, or apathy. Whatever your situation is, it can be hard to look it square in the face. It might feel too painful or ...

Happy, sad, mad, glad. We all know what these emotions feel like, but do we know how to deal with them? Last month, Marc Brackett, the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence ...