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…