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A new study using music streaming data to measure national mood underlines how much stock markets are governed by emotion rather than rational calculation.
As they do today, threats of destruction loomed in ancient Pompeii.
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While they weren’t living through a pandemic, citizens of ancient Pompeii weren’t strangers to societal stress.
That smile may hurt sales.
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A new study found that sales went down when salespeople conveyed emotion during their pitch – including expressions of happiness.
Managing your social media activity can have positive outcomes on your health.
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The pandemic has people spending more time online for school, socializing and work. To maintain a healthy relationship with social media, people should manage their online time and activities.
What if your happy is different from my happy?
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Happiness is different for everyone in ways that scientists don’t understand – yet.
Researchers have long been searching for a more comprehensive way to assess national progress than GDP.
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GDP only measures economic growth – not inequality, poverty or unpaid work like elder care. So researchers in the Netherlands developed a new way for governments to see how people are actually doing.
Testosterone levels can be affected by range of causes.
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A growing online movement believes that giving up masturbation can make us happier and boost our testosterone levels.
Learning is rewarding.
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Receiving a pay raise will make you feel happier only if it was bigger than what you had expected. Why? Because it helps you learn.
Strange days: there are likely to be more police and military around the inauguration than spectators.
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New data shows how unhappy and polarised America has become – due largely to COVID-19.
Lost love.
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Nostalgia is a powerful emotion, but we shouldn’t let it take over our lives.
It’s time to snap out of bad habits.
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The brain is surprisingly changeable.
Turn that frown upside down.
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Governments use a variety of labor market policies to support workers who lose their jobs – each with a different impact on a country’s well-being.
We all love a happy ending.
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Shakespeare was wrong when he wrote ‘all’s well that ends well’.
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The current chaos means there is perhaps greater receptivity to alternative ways of thinking and being.
You don’t need rose-tinted spectacles to find joy – even in the most stressful times.
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The pandemic and political turmoil have left many people feeling anxious, angry and despairing. Being open to joy might bring some respite.
Don’t listen to the old adage.
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Americans with lower incomes today are less happy than they were 40 years ago. Could the growing class divide be to blame?
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Once something bound up with other people, more recently ‘happiness’ is seen as something very individual. Has our dependence on each other during lockdown changed our sense of where happiness lies?
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Our study of 14,000 Australians shows the effect of 18 major life events on happiness and life satisfaction.
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The virus threatens our health both directly and indirectly, placing the future of global happiness in serious jeopardy.
Many of the most popular apps are about self-improvement.
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Mood tracking apps are sophisticated tools that track, measure and improve our emotions. But doing so may make our emotional data vulnerable to interested third parties.