A scientist in the UK is running a mass project to see if we can boost how happy we are.
The happiness boosting experiment assigns participant randomly to one of four groups. Each group, fills in a short questionnaire and then views a short video and is giving simple “happiness” tasks to do for five days. At the end of the five days their happiness is reassessed.
The URL is www.ScienceOfHappiness.co.uk
For some reason these big mass, messy experiments always appeal to me. So I clicked on the link and did the survey and watched the video.
The survey is about half a dozen simple choose “where you are on the scale” questions. My video was just over 30 seconds long. So it didn’t take long.
I don’t know whether you are supposed to say what your tasks are. Mine is to say or do something nice to somebody, once a day for the five days.
Curious to see whether it makes me any happier. I don’t think I am normally a particularly gloomy person, but more happiness is always good.
Why not try and be happier?
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