News tagged with happiness levels
Tuning out: How brains benefit from meditation
Experienced meditators seem to be able switch off areas of the brain associated with daydreaming as well as psychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, according to a new brain imaging study by ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 21, 2011 |
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A sensible, balanced amount of free time is key to happiness in our consumer society
What is more desirable: too little or too much spare time on your hands? To be happy, somewhere in the middle, according to Chris Manolis and James Roberts from Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH and Baylor University in ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 19, 2011 |
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African-American women stress compounded
Using incense or lighting a candle may seem like good ways to let go of racial stress, but a recent study found that might not be the case in terms of racial tension among women. In fact, some coping strategies employed by ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 12, 2011 |
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Research finds happiest US States match a million Americans' own happiness states
New research by the UK's University of Warwick and Hamilton College in the US into the happiness levels of a million individual US citizens have revealed their personal happiness levels closely correlate ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 17, 2009 |
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If you're happy, then we know it: Scientists build 'hedonometer'
In 1881, the optimistic Irish economist Francis Edgeworth imagined a strange device called a "hedonimeter" that would be capable of "continually registering the height of pleasure experienced by an individual." ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 24, 2009 |
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'Happiness gap' in the US narrows
Happiness inequality in the U.S. has decreased since the 1970s, according to research published this month in the Journal of Legal Studies.
Jan 26, 2009 |
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