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When are humans most happy? To gather data on this question, Matt Killingsworth built an app, Track Your Happiness, that let people report their feelings in real time. Among the surprising results: We're often happiest when we're lost in the moment. And the flip side: The more our mind wanders, the less happy we can be. (Filmed at TEDxCambridge.) 
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Despite being the richest nation on earth, the United States is, according to the World Health Organization, by a wide margin, also the most anxious, with nearly a third of Americans likely to suffer from an anxiety problem in their lifetime. America's precocious levels of anxiety are not just happening in spite of the great national happiness rat race, but also perhaps, because of it.
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New findings indicate that the ages at which people enjoy the life the most are nine and 68.
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Xun Huang and her colleagues found that couples are happier with their marriage if they commute in the same direction to work, as though it activates the metaphorical sense that they are heading in the same direction. More on MARRIAGE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=marriage
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Giving makes toddlers happier than receiving, according to new findings that may help explain why people act pro-socially, even when doing so often involves sacrifice.
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Spending money on activities and events, such as concert tickets or exotic vacations, won't make you happier if you're doing it to impress others, according to new findings published in the Journal of Happiness Studies.
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APC scientists have shown that brain levels of serotonin, the ‘happy hormone’ are regulated by the amount of bacteria in the gut during early life.
Gina Stepp's comment,
June 12, 2012 11:08 PM
Interesting . . . especially considering that gut regulation and other emotion-related processes are affected by early-life bonding (attachment . . . relationships). You can't separate bodily health from mental health in the end.
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After MIT researchers fine-tune software that can read human facial expressions for emotion, the next step will be to apply the technology to crowds of millions of people to get a feeling for a population's general mood.
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While previous studies have suggested that parents are unhappier, more depressed and have less-satisfying marriage than people without children, two recent studies are suggesting the opposite: that parents are happier than their childless counterparts.
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Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we'll be miserable if we don't get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don't go as planned.
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Why we tend to predict rosy times ahead... A new study from the January issue of Psychological Science may explain why we are all so optimistic about what’s to come. The authors report that people tend to remember imagined future scenarios that are happy better than they recall the unhappy ones. Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology
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It turns out, money might buy happiness after all. And, it might not cost as much as you think.
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They say a problem shared is a problem halved. Now a team of psychologists in the USA has performed a series of studies that suggest sharing your good news multiplies its benefits for your happiness and longer-term life satisfaction.
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Increased GDP per capita doesn’t deliver the increased happiness or welfare if promises
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In a forthcoming paper, researchers Melanie Rudd, Kathleen Vohs, and Jennifer Aaker examined whether the emotion of awe, compared to happiness and neutral states, might reduce people's sense of time pressure and consequently make them more willing to volunteer their time, choose experiences over material objects, and enjoy greater life satisfaction.
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A new study of twins sheds light on the complex links between biology and happiness. More on HAPPINESS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=happiness Via Sandeep Gautam
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Money may make the world go 'round' but respect is what will make you happy. New studies have shown that the respect you've earned is worth more than what is in the bank. More on HAPPINESS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=happiness
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Here is a list of 15 things which, if you give up on them, will make your life a lot easier and much, much happier. More on HAPPINESS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=happiness Via PAT NOVAK
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Can too much happiness hurt motivation? Can too much motivation hurt happiness? How can we find a balance between happiness and motivation?
I guess it depends on your definition of happiness. If you define happiness as being fully satisfied and content with everything in your life, then there would never be anything you’re motivated to change.
Motivation implies a willingness to make something better. But if you’re happy with everything, then there is nothing you want to make better because everything is already fine the way it is.
Read more: http://www.theemotionmachine.com/the-comp Via PAT NOVAK
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There is no shortage of online tools to help us research restaurants, track up-to-the-minute news and even plan out our zombie escape routes, yet there are very few tools that can help us research, track and plan our own happiness. More on HAPPINESS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=happiness More on TECHNOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=technology
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The sayings "variety is the spice of life" and "happiness isn't getting what you want, but wanting what you get" seem to have a psychological basis, according to a new study by an MU psychologist who identified two keys to becoming happier and staying that way.
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What is the difference between happy people and unhappy people? Of course, it may be very obvious, happy people are happy while unhappy people are unhappy, right? Well, that is correct, but we want to know what are the things that these people do differently and that is why, I have put together a list of things that HAPPY people do differently than UNHAPPY people.
Read more: 15 Powerful Things Happy People Do Differently http://bit.ly/IUUIwv Via PAT NOVAK
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At TEDxCambridge, Michael Norton shares fascinating research on how money can, indeed buy happiness -- when you don't spend it on yourself. Listen for surprising data on the many ways pro-social spending can benefit you, your work, and (of course) other people.
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