Recently in memeburn Stuart Thomas wrote an article on a study conducted by Cornell University on Happiness of People.
People all over the world are happiest in the morning, at least that’s what the results of one US study indicate. The results came via an analysis of hundreds of millions of messages on Twitter.
The study was conducted by a team of sociologists from Cornell University who used language software to detect the presence of positive words in 509-million tweets from 2.4-million users in 84 different countries over a two-year period.
According the study, mood peaks were detected early in the morning but began to dip at around the time that most people start their working days. A second positive peak was noticed at around midnight, followed by what the research team called a “sharp drop in NA (negative affect, including distress, fear, anger, guilt, and disgust) during the overnight hours,” in the journal Science. More...
