Overall, the world has been becoming a better place for quite some time (for an in-depth consideration I encourage you to read Steven Pinker's latest book: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress). As someone who has always lived in America, however, I'm troubled by the decline in well-being that happened in the United States in 2017. Troublesome Year According to the Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index, 2017 was a bad year. In fact, it was Read More …
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Churchgoing = Better Moods (#0692)
Recent research by Gallup finds, "Americans who attend a church, synagogue, or mosque frequently report experiencing more positive emotions and fewer negative ones in general than do those who attend less often or not at all." So What? Higher levels of religiosity correlate to higher levels of well-being according to other findings from Gallup's research (see my post on the benefits of being religious). Within that context, it makes sense that those who are most involved in Read More …