Happiness over one’s lifetime has been popularly described as looking like a U-shaped curve: The joys of youth are followed ...

For decades, research showed that the way people experienced happiness across their lifetimes looked like a U-shaped curve: Happiness tended to be high when they were young, then dipped in midlife ...

Much has been made of the so-called midlife happiness curve, but yet another critique sheds doubt on its ubiquity. When you look closely at it, the curve becomes a wiggly line.

Jonathan Rauch published his book, The Happiness Curve, in 2018. Yes, before COVID. But his analysis of then-current research on wellbeing was actually prescient identification of the trends that ...

Emily Bobrow reviews “The Happiness Curve” by Jonathan Rauch. Research shows that, after hitting 50, most people feel less regretful about their past and more positive about their lives in ...

He acknowledges that a singular focus on the U-shaped happiness curve distracted him from the adolescent mental health crisis. “These changes that started around 2013,” he says.

The Happiness Curve should be given to everyone on their 40th birthday. Required reading. As Rauch explains, knowing that this midlife disquiet is coming will not alleviate its symptoms. Unfortunately ...

On average, happiness declines as we approach middle age, bottoming out in our 40s but then picking back up as we head into retirement, according to a number of studies.This so-called U-shaped curve ...

Conventional wisdom — and at least one study — says people typically experience an inverted U-shaped happiness curve. Starting at age 18 your happiness level begins to decrease until you reach ...

"The money-happiness curve continues rising well beyond $500,000 a year," Killingsworth told CBS MoneyWatch in an email. "I think a big part of what's happening is that when people have more money ...