In A Nutshell A new study suggests life satisfaction is not just about piling up good feelings and avoiding bad ones. The findings are intriguing, but the study was cross-sectional, so it cannot prove ...

If you can't get no satisfaction, then maybe it's because happiness does not only stem from pleasure or a meaningful ...

If you can’t get no satisfaction, then maybe it’s because happiness does not only stem from pleasure or a meaningful ...

Autonomy is the ability to make choices yourself rather than having them made for you by other people. Most of us desire autonomy—who wants to be a slave to another's wishes? But we are certainly not ...

A recent paper by Wallace and McIntyre, published in the October issue of Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, suggests social autonomy can have negative consequences. Specifically, “social ...