microrobert
06-22-2013, 12:49 PM
For Immediate In-the-Moment Happiness, Head Outdoors (http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/06/for-immediate-in-the-moment-happiness-head-outdoors/)
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/files/2013/06/31_06_4_web-1024x681.jpg (http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/files/2013/06/31_06_4_web.jpg)
A wealth of studies (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=outdoors+happiness&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C33&as_sdtp=) 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 them “How do you feel?” every few minutes, collecting such fleeting data remains a challenge.
For Immediate In-the-Moment Happiness, Head Outdoors | Smart News (http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/06/for-immediate-in-the-moment-happiness-head-outdoors/#ixzz2WwsTLVQs)
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/files/2013/06/31_06_4_web-1024x681.jpg (http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/files/2013/06/31_06_4_web.jpg)
A wealth of studies (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=outdoors+happiness&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C33&as_sdtp=) 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 them “How do you feel?” every few minutes, collecting such fleeting data remains a challenge.
For Immediate In-the-Moment Happiness, Head Outdoors | Smart News (http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/06/for-immediate-in-the-moment-happiness-head-outdoors/#ixzz2WwsTLVQs)