Arguments about whether social media is good or bad for us often rely on surveys that cannot show cause and effect. In 2018, a team of economists from…
Read articlePlacebos are usually thought to work only when patients believe they are getting real medicine. In 2010, a team at…
What makes people happy from moment to moment? In 2010, two Harvard psychologists, Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert, tried to…
Gratitude journals are now a staple of self-help advice. The scientific interest behind them took off with a set of…
Doctors routinely ask patients about smoking, drinking, exercise and weight. Few ask about friends. In 2010, a team led by psychologist Julianne Holt-Lunstad at Brigham Young University set…
