The point of describing the neurological and psychological mechanisms that underpin taking offense is that knowledge is power ...

I do a lot of public speaking for business leaders about how using the science of happiness can improve their organization and make life easier for everyone. But there’s one question I get very ...

Arthur C. Brooks shares some of his go-to tips for finding happiness, from important questions to ask to avoiding distraction and spending more time bored.

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When Arthur C. Brooks, a professor who studies happiness, heard that Oprah Winfrey was trying to reach him, he says his first response was, "Yeah, and I'm Batman." ...

After writing 'Build the Life You Want' with Oprah Winfrey, Arthur C. Brooks tells PEOPLE he learned that his co-author has a unique approach to fame and has 'cracked the code' for dealing with it ...

Oprah Winfrey, Arthur C. Brooks on new book and People's Fund of Maui criticism 10:25. Oprah Winfrey and Arthur C. Brooks are out with a new book, "Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of ...

As politics metastasizes through all parts of American life, it seems as though everything must become subordinate to ideology. The latest casualty is kindness.

"This is the way that Oprah and I have seen our own lives and that was the message that we're trying to bring to other people," Brooks tells PEOPLE of their new book, 'Build the Life You Want ...

When Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey worked on their new co-authored book, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier, they each took a personality test featured in one of ...