Why We Earn Beyond Needs at the Cost of Happiness
Overearning is a new phenomenon in human history. It means that we earn beyond our needs. It is only possible to overearn (i.e., accumulate resources) due to the efficiency and advantages of modern...
View ArticleConsider This Before You Clean Up Your Room (Messy Rooms Encourage Creativity)
Sometimes, we prefer convention such as order, rules, and tradition. Other times, we prefer to break free from convention. Both order and disorder are present in nature and culture. Physical order has...
View ArticleThe Psychology of Music: Why We Listen to Music and How It Affects The Mind
Why do we listen to music? Why do we listen to music? A review has identified three overall psychological factors of music listening: 1. to regulate arousal and mood, 2. to achieve self-awareness, 3....
View ArticleThe Swedish 6-Hour Workday Experiment: A Brilliant Idea or Not?
Huffington Post reports of an unusual experiment going on in Sweden at the moment. A test group of government workers will scale back to work 6 hours per day, while a another group of participants will...
View ArticleWear the Right Clothes and Make the Right Impressions on Others: Dress to...
Whether you like it or not: the clothes you wear makes a particular impression on others. Even subtle appearance cues lead others to judge our personality, status and more. I’ve come across a number...
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Study: Higher Income is Related to Less Daily Sadness but Not More Daily...
A new large-scale study of over 12,000 participants shows that higher income is associated with less daily sadness but not more daily happiness (Kushlev, Dunn, & Lucas, 2015). Previous research has...
View ArticleCan’t See the Forest for Trees? Studies Show The Mental Benefits of Engaging...
Our culture has too often talked in terms of conquering nature. This is about as sensible as for a caddis worm to talk of conquering …
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