Tag Archives : happiness

A study released Thursday in the U.S. suggests that people spend almost half the time wondering who would like to be somewhere else or doing something else, and this perpetual dispersion of mind makes them unhappy. The study followed 2,250 people through their iPhones. An application has been installed for volunteers to ask “how happy they are, [...]

Twitter goes beyond the tweets. Using millions of messages posted to the site, researchers at Northeastern University in Boston, created an application that claims to be able to measure the mood of the United States. People are happier in the morning and early evening, and happiness reaches its peak on Sunday morning and its lowest point in the evening [...]

Finally Amnesty International Hong Kong has spoken up against gross discrimination and human rights abuse LGBTs face because of their sexuality by launching a ‘Gay’ campaign. Yes, the pun is very much intended in these series of print advertisements. The message in the print ads say: Gay People Are Not Gay, Make More People Gay Today and Everybody [...]

The cognitive restructuring technique of stress management establishes a concrete strategy that transforms unhappiness to a positive outlook. Cognitive restructuring is a useful tool for understanding and turning around negative thinking. It helps one scrutinize unhappy and negative thoughts, decide to challenge them, then rescript the negative thinking [...]

There has always been a debate on whether a vegetarian diet is healthier than the one with meat. Much has been said about the benefits of vegetarian diet on the physical well-being of a person. There is also, however, a correlation between a non-meat diet and a person’s emotional health. A vegetarian diet does not contain animal fat that can cause [...]

The Danes are more satisfied and the Europeans made, according to a new poll on the quality of living in member countries of the European Union. The “happiness index” reached by Denmark was 8.3 on a scale of one to ten. Sweden and Finland are right behind. The Europeans are less fortunate in Bulgaria, where the index was 5.8 – almost [...]