Jochen Menges, an expert in organisational behaviour, thinks that emotions matter profoundly for employee performance and behaviour. His studies bring nuance to our understanding of how employees wish to feel at work.
A new app will crowdsource data to help scientists understand the relationship between biodiversity and wellbeing. The app, developed at the University of Cambridge, maps happiness onto a detailed map that includes all the UK’s nature reserves and green spaces.
Money really can buy happiness when spending fits our personality, finds a study based on 77,000 UK bank transactions.
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,” observed the writer Samuel Johnson in the eighteenth century. In fact, research published today suggests such a man may be merely living in the wrong postcode. A study of 56,000 Londoners found that a person’s life satisfaction depends, at least in part, on whether their personality suits the place where they live.
New research links well-being in adolescence with life satisfaction in adulthood.
The question of whether money buys happiness comes up frequently in discussions of subjective wellbeing in both scholarly debates and casual conversation.
A system which enables psychologists to track people's emotional behaviour through their mobile phones has been successfully road-tested by researchers.
Mindfulness’, the process of learning to become more aware of our ongoing experiences, increases well-being in adolescent boys, a new study reports.
Girls appear to be "protected" from showing antisocial behaviour until their teenage years, new research from the University of Cambridge has found.
People's happiness is significantly bound up with that of their "significant others", a new study into men and women's differing attitudes to well-being has found.
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