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What makes you happy? And how does it change with age? Everyone says that money can't buy you love, but what about happiness?

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Can meditation make us into world citizens? Richard Davidson thinks so. His findings on the increasing plasticity of the brain combined with long term effects of meditation have led to an intriguing projection: Happiness 2050: Neuroscience, Education, and the Compassionate World Citizen.

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PBS has announced that a new series will air during the first week of the 2010 new year that examines the question, Can Americans be happier?

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Continuous register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life

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No pain, no gain applies to happiness, too, according to new research published online in the Journal of Happiness Studies. People who work hard at improving a skill or ability, such as mastering a math problem or learning to drive, may experience stress

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Growing incomes in western societies no longer make us happier, and more individualistic, competitive societies make some of us positively unhappy. Public policy should take its cue once more from Bentham's utilitarianism, unfashionable for many decades b

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Brains are highly variable, changing systems that shift in response to our experience. Contemplative neuroscience proves that we have the power to guide our brain’s ongoing development – to cultivate happiness and compassion. In this accessible dialogue,

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Matt Goldman, founding member of the Blue Man Group, attended the Vancouver Peace Summit 2009. He sat down with the Dalai Lama Center to talk about the Blue School, the Summit experience, among other topics

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Some argue that happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. This maxim sounds reasonable enough, but can it be tested, and if so, is it true?

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Researchers at the University of British Columbia and the Harvard Business School have found that it’s possible to buy happiness after all: when you spend money on others

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Our emotions, it turns out, are revealed deep inside our brains, in areas such as the amygdala and the uncinate fasciculus. And these structures of our brain can physically change with training, says Davidson, who is a distinguished professor of psycholog

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In part two of a series exploring well-being, Gallup shows the connection between happiness and economic growth.

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Dan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness -- sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on yourself. Watch through to the end for a sparkling

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Author and University of California Professor of Psychology Sonja Lyubomirsky visits Google's Santa Monica, CA office to discuss her book "The How of Happiness: A Practical Guide to Getting the Life You Want."

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THIMPHU, Bhutan — If the rest of the world cannot get it right in these unhappy times, this tiny Buddhist kingdom high in the Himalayan mountains says it is working on an answer.

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Happiness… it’s something we all want but it’s a state of mind we don’t always get to enjoy. It wasn’t that long ago psychologists were far more focussed on what made their patients depressed, rather than what made them happy. But, in a relatively new and

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Dan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness -- sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on yourself. Watch through to the end for a sparkling Q&A with some familiar TED faces.

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Cognitive researcher Nancy Etcoff looks at happiness -- the ways we try to achieve and increase it, the way it's untethered to our real circumstances, and its surprising effect on our bodies.

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When people think of "science," they naturally think of atoms, planets, robots — things they can touch and see. They know that subjective experiences such as happiness are important, but they believe that such experiences can't be studied scientifically.

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