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Green spaces boosts wellbeing of urban dwellers – study
BBC: Using data from 5,000 UK households over 17 years, researchers found that living in a greener area had a significant positive effect. The findings could help to inform urban planners and have an impact
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Green Spaces May Boost Well-Being for City Slickers
People who live in urban areas with more green space tend to report greater well-being than city dwellers who don’t have parks, gardens, or other green space nearby, according to new research published in Psychological
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Kate Sweeny
University of California, Riverside http://faculty.ucr.edu/~ksweeny What does your research focus on? I have two primary lines of research, both of which address the question of how people manage difficult life events. My first line of
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Pig Out In The Winter Or When Money’s Tight? Blame Evolution
NPR: Has the recession made you fat? To the long and growing list of risk factors known to increase the risk of obesity, scientists recently added a new one: scarcity. People given subtle cues that
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The Economy Could Also Be Making You Fat
Motherboard: Many of us know the feeling: We get depressed or anxious and the first thing we want to do is pig out. As noted on Motherboard a few weeks ago with regard to sugary drinks
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Bad news, economic data may lead to high-calorie food choices, eating more, study suggests
National Post: If you find yourself going to the fridge for an extra helping these days, you may want to consider switching the channel from watching the news, or at least hitting the mute button
