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What really makes people happy – and can you learn to be happier?

What really makes people happy – and can you learn to be happier?

19 January 2022

Our life satisfaction is shaped by many things including our genes and relative wealth, but there is now good evidence that you can boost your basic happiness with these key psychological strategies
'Ums' and 'ers' are a hidden code that helped complex language evolve

'Ums' and 'ers' are a hidden code that helped complex language evolve

14 October 2020

Filler words such as uh, mmm and huh may seem inarticulate, but without them human communication would be far less sophisticated

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