News tagged with happiness levels

Research finds happiest US States match a million Americans' own happiness states

New research by the UK's University of Warwick and Hamilton College in the US into the happiness levels of a million individual US citizens have revealed their personal happiness levels closely correlate ...

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created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (6) | comments 18

If you're happy, then we know it: Scientists build 'hedonometer'

In 1881, the optimistic Irish economist Francis Edgeworth imagined a strange device called a "hedonimeter" that would be capable of "continually registering the height of pleasure experienced by an individual." ...

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created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (8) | comments 7

'Happiness gap' in the US narrows

Happiness inequality in the U.S. has decreased since the 1970s, according to research published this month in the Journal of Legal Studies.

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created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A sensible, balanced amount of free time is key to happiness in our consumer society

What is more desirable: too little or too much spare time on your hands? To be happy, somewhere in the middle, according to Chris Manolis and James Roberts from Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH and Baylor University in ...

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created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0