Even if they don't verbalize it, you can tell how miserable someone is by 10 things they care about way too much. They're ...

A job that you hate can be emotionally draining. While there’s a lot of negative discourse about professional environments these days, with many attempting to convince most workers that they have to ...

In Gallup's latest report on workplace engagement, Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO wrote that “16% of employees are actively disengaged — they are miserable in the workplace." If you are absolutely ...

The huge number of books about how to better your career astounds me. I sometimes wonder if there really is anything new worth writing about. But last year I read a book that seemed cheesy on the ...

It’s eventually going to happen. Though we’ve been riding this happiness train in psychology for a long time now, at some point the pendulum is going to swing: Miserable will become the new happy, old ...

It is essential for policy-makers to have a read of their constituents’ well-being, as viewed through the lens of economic statistics. Author’s note: Below is the latest installment of Hanke’s Annual ...

More than a half-century ago, in 1952, when positive psychology set off a wave of religiously inspired self-help in the U.S. with the release of Norman Vincent Peale’s popular bestseller The Power of ...

James Pethokoukis is a columnist at AEIdeas, the blog of the American Enterprise Institute, and a CNBC contributor. He is on Twitter. Updated September 8, 2015, 3:32 AM Market capitalism has done ...