In my on-going Technotopia series I’ve been talking to designers, coders, and journalists. This time I talk to business professor Raj Raghunathan author of If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy, a ...

Everyone wants to be happy, but true happiness eludes many of us. Raj Raghunathan thinks he knows why. The marketing professor at the University of Texas in Austin is known as Dr. Happy-smarts. He's ...

There are three things, once one's basic needs are satisfied, that academic literature points to as the ingredients for happiness: having meaningful social relationships, being good at whatever it is ...

As a kid, I was obsessed with the Game of Life. Whenever a new friend came to visit, we'd invariably end up playing — and at some point there would be tears, because the friend would want to stop and ...

People often try to answer one of life’s biggest questions — how to be truly happy — with accomplishments in business, status or wealth. However, research shows accomplishment and intelligence cannot ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Raj Raghunathan is a professor of marketing at the McCombs School of ...

Nearly two decades ago, a professor at the University of Chicago conducted a somewhat amusing but telling study. Experimenters asked about 150 university students to imagine that they had won a ...

Clap along if you feel that happiness it the truth. In Episode 11of “Statesman Shots,” we talk to happiness expert Raj Raghunathan, a UT McCombs School of Business professor whose research focuses on ...