Arthur C. Brooks and Lori Gottlieb discuss the importance of fun, the cultural distortion of emotions as “good” or “bad,” and how envy can point you in the direction of your deepest desires.

Arthur Brooks is a strange creature by Washington ... (The Arthur you hear in this podcast I did with him is the Arthur I know). I don’t want to sound like I’m writing a eulogy.

Arthur Brooks, a Harvard professor who studies the science of happiness, told "CBS Mornings" that while many people make New Year's resolutions, their success rate is low. "About 50% of Americans ...

Social scientist Arthur C. Brooks ... and they have a sense of meaning about why they're alive," Brooks said on the podcast. "These are the protein, carbohydrates and fat of happiness." ...

ARTHUR C. BROOKS Well, there's two ways that science really helps us to understand happiness. One is psychology, and the other is biology, believe it or not. So on the psychological side ...

It often seems that introverts are unfairly stereotyped in societal views. The prevalent notion suggests that extroverts ...