{"id":814,"date":"2014-08-05T03:24:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T19:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klinikong.com\/?p=814"},"modified":"2014-08-05T03:24:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T19:24:30","slug":"equation-can-predict-momentary-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/05\/equation-can-predict-momentary-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Equation can &#8220;predict momentary happiness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">It has long been known that happiness depends on many different life circumstances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Now scientists have developed a mathematical equation that can predict momentary delight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: normal;\">They found that participants were happiest when they performed better than expected during a risk-reward task.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Brain scans also revealed that happiness scores correlated with areas known to be important for well-being.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-28592838\">For the full story, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has long been known that happiness depends on many different life circumstances. Now scientists have developed a mathematical equation that can predict momentary delight. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[138,142,168,215,282],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body","category-mind","tag-equation","tag-expectations","tag-happiness","tag-math","tag-rewards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klinikong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}