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Happiness

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Social Media

Don't Count on Quitting Social Media To Make Your Life Better

A new meta-analysis finds “no significant effects of social media abstinence interventions on positive affect, negative affect, or life satisfaction.”

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.31.2025 11:30 AM

Abigail Shrier next to the words strong kids equal happy kids | Illustration: Lex Villena

Teenagers

Abigail Shrier: Stop Obsessing Over Our Children's Happiness

The author of Bad Therapy argues that we have created a generation of "emotional hypochondriacs."

Nick Gillespie | 4.10.2024 10:45 AM

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Happiness

American Nightmare

Plus: Squatters, Julian Assange, teen babysitters, Hong Kong migration, and more...

Liz Wolfe | 3.21.2024 9:30 AM

2023 | Lex Villena

Politics

2023's Most Under-Covered Stories

So long, 2023! What fresh hell awaits us all in 2024?

Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 12.26.2023 4:00 PM

johan | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson; Source images: Wikimedia. Johan Norberg; Remo Neuhaus

Capitalism

Does Capitalism Really Make Us Lonely?

What both the left and the right don't understand

Johan Norberg | 9.21.2023 6:00 AM

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Reason Roundup

Study: Around the World, Internet Use Linked to Greater Well-Being

Plus: Tennessee drag law halted, the FTC's proposed ban on negative option marketing, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.3.2023 9:54 AM

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Coronavirus

More Americans Are Satisfied With Their Lives Now Than Before COVID-19, Says Gallup Survey

Survey data suggest that 59.2 percent of Americans are "thriving"—the highest percentage recorded in Gallup's 13 years of measurement. Take that, 2020.

Ella Lubell | 7.9.2021 3:40 PM

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Economics

More Money Does Buy More Happiness  

Researchers and economists have been debating this idea for decades, and a new study in the journal Emotion sheds more light on the role money plays in increasing happiness levels.

Ronald Bailey | 9.2.2020 6:00 AM

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Happiness

More Money Does Buy More Happiness, Says Study

If you think that money can't buy happiness, that means you just don't know where to shop. 

Ronald Bailey | 7.3.2020 9:30 AM

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Lifestyle

Pollyanna Was Not a Pollyanna  

The surprising wisdom of a long-misunderstood classic.

Lenore Skenazy | 6.29.2020 6:00 AM

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Lifestyle

Resolutions To See You Through a New (Election) Year

Too many of your friends and neighbors are tribal idiots, but they're not the worst tribal idiots in recent memory, by any means.

J.D. Tuccille | 12.31.2019 6:00 AM

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Jobs

How Work Got Good

Overall, jobs have become safer, more interesting—and more intense.

Arthur M. Diamond Jr. | 8.24.2019 6:00 AM

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Happiness

Oh, the Places They'll Go—If You Let Go

An economist's guide to happier, more relaxed parenting

Stephen C. Miller | 5.4.2019 6:00 AM

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Lifestyle

Sweat Your Way to Independence

J.D. Tuccille | 11.25.2017 10:19 AM

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Temperature Trends

Warmer Temperatures: More Climate Satisfaction in U.S.

At least for the next several decades.

Ronald Bailey | 4.7.2017 1:30 PM

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Mississippi

Mississippi Is the Most Religious and Vermont the Least Religious of the States

Hmm. I wonder what other comparisons might one make?

Ronald Bailey | 2.8.2017 5:00 PM

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Intelligence

Smarter People Are Happier People

New study contradicts earlier findings of no correlation between intelligence and happiness

Ronald Bailey | 11.28.2016 4:20 PM

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Pornography

Watching Porn Predicts Divorce? A Few Reasons To Be Skeptical

Watching porn "may have negative effects on marital stability," said sociologist Samuel Perry.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.22.2016 4:45 PM

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Culture

Science Is a Good Substitute for God

Believers in sci-tech progress tend to be happier than the religiously faithful, says new study

Ronald Bailey | 3.25.2016 1:30 PM

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Happiness

Economic Freedom Makes People Happy

New study finds that happiness correlates with living in a free society.

Ronald Bailey | 7.28.2015 2:11 PM

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Happiness

Liberals Better Than Conservatives Again, Says New Study on Who's Happier

I am just happy to be a libertarian.

Ronald Bailey | 3.13.2015 10:03 AM

Politics

Russ Roberts: Adam Smith's Surprising Guide to Happiness (But Not Wealth)

Nick Gillespie and Todd Krainin | 10.8.2014 11:45 AM

Civil Liberties

'Happy' Bhutan Persecuted and Expelled a Minority Population

International not-so-happy day?

Reason Staff | 7.2.2013 7:20 PM

Economics

More Money, More Happiness

More research on the economics of happiness

Ronald Bailey | 5.3.2013 1:30 PM

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Economics

Can Money Buy Happiness After All?

New research suggests an old paradox might not be true.

Ronald Bailey | 1.18.2013 1:30 PM

Economics

Can Money Buy Happiness?

Economists probe the nexus between wealth and well-being.

Ronald Bailey | 11.13.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

Short Skirts and Bear Markets: An Interview with Stock Market Analyst Robert Prechter

Sharif Matar and Matt Welch | 10.14.2012 10:30 AM

Politics

United States: 114th Out of 143 on the Happy Planet Index

Ronald Bailey | 7.2.2012 4:54 PM

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