A spot of interesting reading: Times Online article on the biology of happiness. We may, in fact, be hardwired by millennia of cognitive development to accentuate the negative. Can we learn to prolong and improve our lives simply by finding ways to outwit countless generations of neurological heritage?
- Mood:intrigued
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Meh, some of the stuff in that article annoyed me. Like the experiment with the candy - you could just as easily conclude, from what they’ve presented, that high blood sugar makes people smart.
I think the questions are indeed interesting, I just find myself annoyed by the pop science presentation I guess
Could have been worse, I suppose… Had it been on an American news site, it would have been less than a third the length and been totally fluff. I’ll take a little pop science late in the evening over nothing even resembling science at all. I figured you’d have something to say no matter what, though.
Meanwhile, I find myself strangely compelled to seek out candy. Mmm, cannnndyyyy….
Good article! I enjoyed reading it. Though I think it spent too much time talking about how the British were stodgy
but what do you expect from a british site? 
I liked the talk about virtues. Gonna have to remember those, I thought there were 7, not 6!
I think it’s strangely telling that deadly sins outnumber universal virtues, and that only one of six universal emotions is positive.