Medium sized lottery wins ranging from around just 1000 to 120,000 had a long term sustained impact in the overall personal happiness of those winners.

We are frequently just as satisfied and happy when decisions are made for us.

Happiness may be more related to marriage and health than to money and finance.

While most people believe that having more income would make them happier, research finds that the link between money and happiness is greatly exaggerated and mostly an illusion.

Nearly everything important a human being wants can be reduced to one or more of these 15 core desires, most of which have a genetic basis.

Individuals differ enormously in what makes them happy, for some competition, winning and wealth are the greatest sources of happiness, but for others, feeling competent or socializing may be more satisfying.

Health care medical sciences need to get serious about happiness and the lifestyle that produces it, relative to mind, body and spirit and its biotranslation.

Not only do happy people live longer than curmudgeons, but they also lead healthier lives.

The research is focused on whether the income effect on happiness results largely from the things money can buy.

Money doesn't buy happiness, except when disability strikes. With serious health problem, financial resources may really cushion the blow to a person's psyche and bring some happiness.

Study of severely ill patients yields surprising findings about happiness. Not only are ill people capable of being happy, but on the whole they may be just as happy as healthy people.

Happiness is infectious. To spread happiness just be yourself and top up the happiness by quietly asking yourself the questions in this article.

It is the goal of many people to have more happiness, but what is happiness. Real happiness comes from detachment from all needs. \n

Can you remember a time when you became a little irritated with someone and made a sharp comment that may have hurt, one which you later regretted? Have you ever writhed in the pain of emotional agony over some loss or missed opportunity? Do you recall a time when you felt so overwhelmed by emotion that you withdrew from everything and everyone? In any of these cases to a lesser or greater degree the emotional part of your brain has produced a questionable response or perhaps a response that you may have regretted later.