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Can a quick glance tell you if a couple is happy?
can with older couples. Happy marriage partners grow to look more similar as the years pass. Via Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To: Couples often start to look alike as they grow older, because one consequence of mimicking a partner’s facial expressions after years of cohabitation is that the repeated use of the same facial muscles means that faces start to look more similar. If one partner smiles in…
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10 Scientific Insights About Happy Families
bsp; Seeing friends and family regularly is worth an extra $97,265 a year. Being close to your family makes you trust strangers less. We watch TV and read books to simulate relationships. We love our families more as we age. Yes, grandmom's cookies do taste better than anyone else's and comfort food does comfort us. Freud was kinda right about it all being about your relationship with your mother. Being married does not bring you closer to your parents. Having…
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Does a wandering mind make you more creative – and more unhappy?
ople whose minds wander a lot might be more creative and better problem solvers. Via 100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People: Mind-wandering allows one part of the brain to focus on the task at hand, and another part of the brain to keep a higher goal in mind. Christoff (2009) at the University of California, Santa Barbara has evidence that people whose minds wander a lot are more creative and better problem solvers. Their brains have them…
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How To Live A Long Happy Life – 8 Insights Backed By Research
bsp; One of the reasons young people do such risky things is because they think happiness declines with age so they live it up. They're only half right: you are happiest at ages 26 and 83. There's a lot of evidence that we're happier when we're older. What's interesting is the meaning of happiness does change as we age: young people associate happiness with excitement. Older people connect happiness with peacefulness. The mid-life crisis may be a myth. Life does…
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On a scale of 1 to 10, how happy should you aspire to be?
an "8". Via Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth: Do the extremely happy achieve more than the very happy? Surprisingly, the answer is no. When individuals complete happiness surveys that use a one to ten scale, those scoring around an eight often tend to fare the best in achievement. Why might the eights of the world outperform their friends and neighbors who are nines or tens? It could be that eights benefit from the creativity and energy of…
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How happy will you be two years after getting married?
bsp; Same as you were before getting married. Via Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth: Richard Lucas, a researcher from Michigan State University, examined life satisfaction data from tens of thousands of people across many years of their lives. He found that married people are about as happy as they were before they were married. Join 25K+ readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: What size diamond ring provides the most happiness? What simple thing kills many…
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How positive do you need to be to have a happy relationship? To have a successful company?
bsp; For a good relationship, you need five positive statements for every negative one. Good companies need three to one. Going above thirteen to one makes you lose credibility. Via Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being: “We go into companies and transcribe every word that is said in their business meetings. We have done this in sixty companies. One-third of the companies are flourishing economically, one-third are doing okay, and one-third are failing. We code each sentence…
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What yes/no question can likely predict whether you will be alive and happy at age 80?
s there someone in your life whom you would feel comfortable phoning at four in the morning to tell your troubles to?" Via Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being: Is there someone in your life whom you would feel comfortable phoning at four in the morning to tell your troubles to? If your answer is yes, you will likely live longer than someone whose answer is no. For George Vaillant, the Harvard psychiatrist who discovered this fact,…
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