Looking for ways to make this new year even happier? Taking any of these free courses may be a great way to start. Several prestigious universities and institutions, including Harvard and Yale, have ...

Source: Image by PxHere, CC0. When you were in college, did you take a "happiness course?" Such classes are usually taught by psychology or counseling professors and are now relatively common, but ...

Students who took an online happiness course during lockdown were less likely to feel anxious at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic than their classmates. First year undergraduates taking the course ...

This letter represents the response of 42 students in an undergraduate positive-psychology course to Eric G. Wilson’s “In Praise of Melancholy” (The Chronicle Review, January 18). It is a synthesis of ...

Many might associate psychology first and foremost with the study of disorders and mental illnesses, but one Experimental College class is focusing on a more optimistic branch of the field. "Positive ...

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. — Emily Bronte I just finished reading a terrific book written by Susan Cain (2012), who also ...

Starting college can be an exciting time for students to learn new things, make friends and live away from home for the first time. But not every student takes advantage of the opportunity. Emmanuel ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.