How's your mood?

For an interesting attempt to measure cause and effect try Mappiness, a project run by the London School of Economics, which offers a phone app that prompts you to record your mood and situation. The Mappiness website says: "We're particularly interested in how people's happiness is affected by their local environment - air pollution, noise, green spaces, and so on - which the data from Mappiness will be absolutely great for investigating." Will it work? With enough people it might. But there are other problems. We've been using happiness and wellbeing interchangeably. Is that ok? The difference comes out in a sentiment like: "We were happier during the war." But was our well-being also greater then?

Disponível em: http://www.bbc.co.uk Acesso em: 27 jun. 2011 (adaptado).

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