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Well-being

Everything on this site about well-being — each one naming the study behind it.

Events do not make you as happy as expected.
The hedonic treadmill, a concept proposed by Brickman and Campbell in 1971, hypothesizes a tendency to return to a bas…
Expressing gratitude consistently rewires your daily outlook.
A 2003 study showed that writing about things you are grateful for increases well-being compared to focusing on daily …
You spend 47% of your day thinking about nothing.
A 2010 study found that nearly half of our waking hours are spent thinking about something other than the present task…