“Because (Paknis') book scrubs any identifying information, Toray seeks to prove that certain passages in the book refer to Toray because the events or circumstances described in those passages ...

Carol Bishop Mills is the co-founder and co-director of the Florida Altantic University MainStreet Political Communication and Public Opinion Research Lab. Happiness may be reshaping America’s ...

Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing ...

For decades now, scientists have been trying to figure out what role wealth plays in our satisfaction with life. While some studies have found that money doesn’t buy happiness (at least not beyond a ...

I don't have to show up perfectly in order to be competent. I think we're all harder on ourselves than we are on others in many ways. DACHER KELTNER Welcome to the Science of Happiness, I'm Dacher ...

Other times they’re simply not ready yet. That hasn’t been the case with Gophers safety Koi Perich. Coach P.J. Fleck saw early in the process that the confident, supremely athletic and savvy ...

It may sound like a truism. But, for Aditi, it struck home when she heard her professor tell her that happiness cannot be an object of attainment. “There is this thinking that one day in the ...

It started when he was 20 with what he called a “mental crisis” about happiness. As he tells it in his autobiography, he discovered then a fundamental truth about finding satisfaction in life ...

A koi fish named Snappy has delighted social media with his hilarious reaction every time his owner goes out to the pond to feed him, as seen in a video that quickly went viral. The hilarious clip ...