{"id":266176,"date":"2008-11-19T14:50:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T14:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/11\/19\/if-the-number-of-books-read-correlated-with-general-happiness\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:27:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:27:36","slug":"if-the-number-of-books-read-correlated-with-general-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/11\/19\/if-the-number-of-books-read-correlated-with-general-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"If the Number of Books Read Correlated with General Happiness . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/view\/546504\/?sc=rsln\">recent study<\/a> by sociologists at the University of Maryland provides yet another reason why we should be giving books as presents this holiday season: unhappy people watch more TV, while people who describe themselves as happy tend to read more books. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to the study\u2019s findings, unhappy people watch an estimated 20 percent more television than very happy people, after taking into account their education, income, age and marital status&#8212;as well as other demographic predictors of both viewing and happiness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sure, I know this isn&#8217;t causal, but whatever&#8212;I think we should start prescribing books in addition to Welbutrin . . . <\/p>\n<p>The unfortunate part of this study is the belief that as the economy worsens, TV viewing will increase. Which definitely won&#8217;t help our overall mood . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by sociologists at the University of Maryland provides yet another reason why we should be giving books as presents this holiday season: unhappy people watch more TV, while people who describe themselves as happy tend to read more books. According to the study\u2019s findings, unhappy people watch an estimated 20 percent more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,16746],"class_list":["post-266176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-happiness-and-reading"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355856,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266176\/revisions\/355856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}