Scientists Develop a Course for Learning Happiness

Scientists from the University of Bristol and Yale University have developed a course aimed at teaching happiness. The researchers hypothesized that people can create and maintain a sense of happiness if they know the factors that influence this state. Immediately after completing the course, participants rated their state of happiness 10-15% higher than before the training. However, after two years, the effect persisted only for those who made the correct behavior a regular habit. One of the unexpected findings of the course was that many scientifically proven ways to feel happy are linked to paying attention not to oneself, but to others.