HAPPY PEOPLE, DEEP THOUGHTS

Happy people are chattier, and the stuff they talk about tends to be more on the chin-stroking side of things.

By ROBERTA BOLOGNA

A group of shrinks released findings from a new study which supposedly reveals that “happy” people are chattier, and the stuff they talk about tends to be more on the chin-stroking side of things. After putting volunteers through a series of tests not entirely unlike the “Are you sad/making your man sad?” Cosmo quiz, each participant was fitted with an Electronically Activated Recorder for four days.

Over that period, the EAR recorded 30 seconds of sound every 12.5 minutes, which led the psychologists to conclude that the shinier, happier participants spent 70 percent more time talking. The smiley folk also spent twice as much time grappling with “deep” subjects than their gloomy counterparts. The study does not mention any of the deep subjects discussed in particular, but Kantian ethics, the nature of consciousness, and what BOB on Twin Peaks really represented all sound like pretty good candidates.

By ROBERTA BOLOGNA 1 year ago

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