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		<title>Searching for Happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor van Gorp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happiness is a topic that has been getting a lot of attention lately in design and research circles. One of the difficulties with any discussion around &#8220;happiness&#8221; is that everyone&#8217;s definition of the term differs. This ambiguity leads me to question exactly what it is that designers and researchers are measuring against when they find [...]
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		<title>Money Can Buy You Happiness, But Friends Cost a Lot Less</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor van Gorp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a research team from the University of London, money CAN buy you happiness. That being said, chances are you won&#8217;t get the kind of raise you&#8217;d need to compensate for losing the things that bring you happiness&#8230;Although a study like this appears to suggest that friends, family and social connections could be replaced [...]
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		<title>Expressing Love May Lower Your Cholesterol Levels</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor van Gorp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can designing for emotion help improve medical care? An article on Medical News Today describes a study in Human Communication Research that suggests expressing love may help lower cholesterol&#8230;In the study, participants spent 20 minutes writing about loved ones three times over a five week a period. Those who followed the study protocols had [...]
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		<title>Emotions and the Immune System</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor van Gorp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science News has an article about how positive emotions reduce the emergence of cold symptoms&#8230; Although experiencing positive emotions did not affect how many people in the test were infected, experiencing positive emotions DID affect how many people exhibited symptoms of infection. Previous studies in this area have shown a correlation between negative emotions and [...]
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