Thursday, July 5, 2018

More Small Talk Not Tied to Unhappiness

New research finds that more idle small talk is not necessarily linked to negative well-being as had once been thought. Nevertheless, people who engage in more substantive conversations tend to be happier.

University of Arizona researchers revisited a small study of 79 college students which suggested that more meaningful conversations were linked to greater happiness, while more small talk was linked to unhappiness.

Study co-author Dr. Matthias Mehl, a professor of psychology,  undertook...


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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/07/05/small-talk-not-all-bad/136707.html

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