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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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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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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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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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