Economists paid thousands of people to quit Facebook for a month, and the effects went beyond what anyone expected
Arguments about whether social media is good or bad for us often rely on surveys that cannot show cause and…
Scientists tested 10 healthy diets against DNA aging clocks in 7,500 people, and the people who gained the most from eating well were not who you would expect
Mediterranean, Nordic, plant-based, DASH: there is no shortage of diets that claim to be the healthiest. Researchers at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases compared 10 of them…
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Patients were told their pills were sugar pills with no medicine in them, and their symptoms still improved more than in people given nothing
Placebos are usually thought to work only when patients believe they are getting real medicine. In 2010, a team at…
A smartphone study of 2,250 people found their minds were wandering almost half the time, and it made them less happy
What makes people happy from moment to moment? In 2010, two Harvard psychologists, Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert, tried to…
People who wrote down five things they were grateful for each week for 10 weeks felt more optimistic and exercised more
Gratitude journals are now a staple of self-help advice. The scientific interest behind them took off with a set of experiments published in 2003 by psychologists Robert Emmons…
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