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 ...

A theory that's been around for more than a decade describes a person's subjective well-being—"happiness"—as having a U-shape ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U-shaped happiness curve dictates that "happiness rises initially to a peak around age 30 and then declines into midlife and then rises again after age 70," according to David Blanchflower, a ...