RESEARCH STUDY: Walking Facilitates Positive Affect

JC Miler, Z Krizan, April 2016 Walking Facilitates Positive Affect (Even When Expecting the Opposite). This study conducted 3 experiments to examine how walking induced positivity. Walking in this study wasn’t necessarily for exercise. Results showed that: even when participants didn’t know what the purpose of the experiment was, they experienced an increase in positive affect walking caused a…

SUNSENTINEL: Balancing Act: Greedy Kids? New Study Says a Gratitude Journal Will Help

Balancing Act: Greedy Kids? New Study Says a Gratitude Journal Will Help Chicago Tribune, Heidi Stevens March 15, 2016 Materialistic kids aren’t just tough to shop with at Target (“TeenyMates! Shopkins! Legos! Need! Them! All!”). They’re at an increased risk of developing long-term social and psychological issues, according to a new study. Aric Rindfleisch, professor of…

Smithsonian: For Immediate In-the-Moment Happiness, Head Outdoors

Rachel Nuwer | Smithsonian, June 2013 A wealth of studies have examined the hypothesis that spending time outdoors boosts our well-being, but until now not much was known about how being outside affects what researchers call “momentary subjective well-being,” a fancy term for how you feel in-the-moment. Unless scientists follow participants around with a clip board asking…

Research Study: Grateful Recounting Enhances Subjective Well-Being

P.C. Watkins, J. Uhder., & S. Pichinevskiy This study looked at the gratitude 3-blessings treatment and its effectiveness on improving subjective well-being. For one week, subjects practiced either gratitude 3-blessings, pride 3-blessings, or memory placebo, daily. Results showed that: Subjects had significantly enhanced well-being if they had practiced the gratitude 3-blessings treatment, versus the other practices…