This month, lead with self-compassion to meet your goals with more gentleness with daily tips from Greater Good Science ...

Self-compassion reduces our feelings of shame and self-doubt. We explore a practice to help quiet our inner critic with kindness. The Greater Good Science Center studies the psychology, sociology, and ...

For roughly a decade, positive psychology researchers have studied the strengths and virtues that enable people to lead happier, more fulfilling lives. In Positive Psychology at the Movies, ...

Is happiness in our genes? Research from positive psychology has suggested that as much of half of it is. However, research hasn’t zeroed in on what this really means. Is there a single happy gene? Do ...