Having a midlife crisis may sound like a cliche or the plot of a bad movie. But the reality is that there is a widespread theory that your happiness takes a dip in midlife before rebounding at age 50.

Two economists set out to measure something most people only feel in their gut: the idea that life gets harder somewhere in the middle. David Blanchflower, a professor of economics at Dartmouth ...

Researchers observed an inverted U-shape, where middle-aged adults reported the highest level of happiness, or no significant age-related trend at all. Happiness over one’s lifetime has been popularly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scholars have long assumed happiness was like a U-shaped curve − which looks a bit like a smile. Richard Baker/In Pictures via ...

There is disagreement among researchers regarding the age and stage of life when people are most happy. It is a complicated issue with many factors – but a number of studies have come to the same ...

The U-shaped happiness curve dictates that "happiness rises initially to a peak around age 30 and then declines into midlife and then rises again after age 70," according to David Blanchflower, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mural Artist, Nancy Upthegrove shares a joyful smile with a infant child. There is disagreement among researchers regarding the ...