Wellbeing peaks in our 20s and again in older age, but slumps somewhere in the middle — with 47 the most abject age. And it’s ...

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 ...

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

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.

Something has changed in how willing people are to stick with frustrating working conditions. The Happiness Curve may be in play.

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 ...

Now remember if you get the happiness curve, you’re factoring out all these other things in life that aren’t gendered like education, income and so forth. A lot of the gender things are going ...

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 ...

Multimillionaires are much happier than the merely well off, suggesting life satisfaction continues to improve the wealthier you are.

Some scientists want to shift focus to the teen mental health crisis. But the course of happiness is too complex for simplistic theories, experts warn.