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What activities make us happiest? (I'm impressed that people stopped to answer the survey…)

A survey of tens of thousands of people conducted over five years has revealed the 33 activities that make people the happiest.At the top was making love, followed by concerts and the theatre, sport and gardening. To study everyday happiness, researchers created a smartphone app which ‘dinged’ at random points during the day to ask …

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One Minute Personality Tests – PsyBlog

The Big Five personality framework is well-validated across cultures and popular with researchers, although it's not as well known at the Myers Briggs. The five factors of personality that emerge with some consistency are Extroversion/introversion Neuroticism Agreeableness Conscientiousness Openness to experience Looking over this list, you can see why the Big Five hasn't caught on with …

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