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How emotions shape our work life

18 Jun 2018

Jochen Menges, an expert in organisational behaviour, thinks that emotions matter profoundly for employee performance and behaviour. His studies...

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La felicità nella luce della sera

Does nature make you happy? Crowdsourcing app looks at relationship between the outdoors and wellbeing

26 Apr 2016

A new app will crowdsource data to help scientists understand the relationship between biodiversity and wellbeing. The app, developed at the...

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Shopping

Spending for smiles: money can buy happiness after all

07 Apr 2016

Money really can buy happiness when spending fits our personality, finds a study based on 77,000 UK bank transactions.

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Way Out sign on London Underground

Tired of London? Maybe it’s time to change postal districts

12 Jan 2015

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,” observed the writer Samuel Johnson in the eighteenth century. In fact, research published today...

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Happy Germany fans

Germans top table of happiest tweets

02 Apr 2011

Germany is the happiest country in the world, according to a happiness map based on Twitter users.

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I love peas

Happy children make happy adults

14 Mar 2011

New research links well-being in adolescence with life satisfaction in adulthood.

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Coins

Links between money and happiness explored

17 Dec 2010

The question of whether money buys happiness comes up frequently in discussions of subjective wellbeing in both scholarly debates and casual...

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phone

Feelings by phone

28 Sep 2010

A system which enables psychologists to track people's emotional behaviour through their mobile phones has been successfully road-tested by...

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desks

Meditation increases well-being in adolescent boys

01 Sep 2010

Mindfulness’, the process of learning to become more aware of our ongoing experiences, increases well-being in adolescent boys, a new...

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time has come

Violent teen girls miss anger or disgust in others’ faces

05 May 2010

Girls appear to be "protected" from showing antisocial behaviour until their teenage years, new research from the University of Cambridge has found...

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Sunshine & Smiles

Happiness hinges on the lives of others

15 Apr 2010

People's happiness is significantly bound up with that of their "significant others", a new study into men and women's differing attitudes to well-...

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View of Copenhagen.

Happy Danes are here again

17 Apr 2007

Denmark tops the bill in a European happiness survey – but Britain is gloomier than most of its EU peers

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