Adults who are generous and kind have lower depression, lower cognitive impairment, and higher daily functioning. Sometimes the saying “only the good die young” seems true. But is it? Researchers report that the impact of honesty and integrity on physical and mental...
To be happier, we should elect more women to political office. Political scientists say the results are quite clear: In countries where more women hold elected office, people are happier. There is strong, consistent evidence that promoting gender equality in...
Psychologists find that you can be infected by corruption by being around it. Researchers have found that countries with the highest number of years of schooling in 1870 have the lowest levels of corruption in 2010. Corruption is highly contagious, despite differing...
The 2020 United Nations World Happiness Report, in its article, “History & the Hunt for the Root Cause,” hypothesized that past choices play a part in the psychological functioning of whole countries. The authors point to a historical pattern of virtue...
There was just one goal I didn’t accomplish while mayor, and that was to offer training to elected representatives about their roles and responsibilities on the many boards on which they serve. My knowledge came from building my own corporate board at the...
