So much of a flourishing life is irreducibly personal and subjective. How can we quantify the joy we feel at our children’s smiles or the satisfaction we find in our work? It would seem impossible ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flourishing is more than economic growth or individual happiness. It's a multidimensional state of being that reflects how people ...

Given the bitterness of ideological battles in the modern world, it is important for social scientists to illuminate where the evidence lies and help explain the divergence between truth and fiction.

AI chatbots have been linked to serious mental health harms in heavy users, but there have been few standards for measuring whether they safeguard human well-being or just maximize for engagement. A ...

A new study published in Nature Mental Health underscores the critical role of assessing well-being in clinical research and treatment. Led by Fallon Goodman of the George Washington University, the ...

A new study by IIASA researchers offers a pioneering way to understand how climate change affects people's lives over the long term. Using a global model and the Years of Good Life (YoGL) metric, the ...