A happy outlook on life can have a very real impact on your physical well-being, including fewer sick days, according to a new study published in the journal Psychological Science.
“Though prior studies have shown that happier people tend to have better cardiovascular health and immune-system responses than their less happy counterparts, our research is one of the first randomized controlled trials to suggest that increasing the psychological well-being even of generally healthy adults can have benefits to their physical health,†said Dr. Kostadin Kushlev, a professor in Georgetown University’s Department of Psychology and one of the authors of the paper.
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