Authentic Happiness

What are the stories we tell about our life? Click here to participate in this exciting new research.

Welcome to the Authentic Happiness Website!

Here you can learn about Positive Psychology through readings, videos, research, surveys, opportunities and more.

Positive Psychology is the scientific study of the strengths that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

What happens when our emotions like happiness or sadness are more or less stable? Participate in our study to help increase our understanding of human happiness and flourishing.

New! Foundations of Positive Psychology

• Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman
• Dr. James Pawelski
• Dr. Angela Duckworth
• Dr. Claire Robertson-Kraft
• Dr. Karen Reivich

Please consider confidentially sharing your Facebook language with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania to improve well-being around the world. Click on this banner for more information.

Grit: New Book by Dr. Angela Duckworth

Discover Positive Health

Our health care system has long focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. But health is more than absence of disease. Positive Health focuses on promoting people’s positive health assets—strengths that can contribute to a longer, healthy life.

Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) Program

at the University of Pennsylvania

Questionnaires

The questionnaires on Authentic Happiness measure character strengths and different aspects of happiness and well-being.  It's free to take our questionnaires, but you'll first need to register.

Introducing LexHub

A hub for data, tools, publications, conferences, researchers, and
almost any resource in the growing field of language analysis for social
science.

What sort of world is this?