Happiness seems to be a top priority for the UK, as a lot of happiness research and experiments are conducted there. Good news for anyone living in the UK.
The researchers split more than 26,000 people up in to five different groups, four of which were assigned a different happiness exercise:
- Group 1: Tasked with expressing gratitude
- Group 2: Tasked with smiling
- Group 3: Tasked with recalling a positive event from the day before
- Group 4: Tasked with carrying out an act of kindness
- Group 5: Tasked with thinking about what had happened the day before (control group)
After each group had completed their happiness exercise they were surveyed and their new happiness levels were compared to levels from surveys they had taken before their exercise.
As these are all proven happiness boosting exercises, all four groups experienced some amount of increased happiness. It was Group 3, however, that reported a more significant increase. Group 3 was found to be, on average, 15% happier than any of the other groups.
Of course the happiest person would be the person who did all four happiness exercises.
Here’s a short video summarizing the findings:
found via Wired
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