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A new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper called “International Happiness,” by economists David G. Blanchflower of Dartmouth College in the U.S. and Andrew J. Oswald  of the University of Warwick in England, offers some insights. Blanchflower and Oswald give an overview of findings, in...

A review of more than 160 studies of human and animal subjects has found "clear and compelling evidence" that – all else being equal – happy people tend to live longer and experience better health than their unhappy peers. The study, in the journal Applied Psychology:...

A few weeks ago I did what dads do and took my son down to the local oval, into the practice nets and we had some fun with a cricket bat and ball. My son had specificially asked me to help him because although he...