Presents a 2010 psychology study finding well-being correlates …

Presents a 2010 psychology study finding well-being correlates with less small talk and more substantive conversation.

this is your reminder…try to get into a nice meaningful conversation this weekend that’s you’ve might’ve otherwise not have had Subjects rated their own personality twice, 3 weeks apart, on the Big Five Inventory (John & Srivastava, 1999; as ≥ .92), and informants rated subjects‘ personality on the same inven-tory. To obtain a multimethod measure of personality, we then averaged self-reports and informant reports. Results were consistent with prior research (Diener & Seli an. 2002) in that higher well-being was associated wi spending less time alone, r=-.35, and more time talking to others, r= .31.

Small talk is killing your happiness The science of high substance conversations Short Report aps ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE Eavesdropping on Happiness: Well-Being Is Related to Having Less Small Talk and More Substantive Conversations Psychological Science 21(4) 539–541 © The Author(s) 2010 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0956797610362675 http://pss.sagepub.com SAGE Matthias R. Mehl¹, Simine Vazire², Shannon E. Holleran¹, and C. Shelby Clark¹ ¹University of Arizona and ²Washington University in St. Louis Received 8/11/09; Revision accepted 8/27/09 Talking more overall links to greater well-being. But depth matters far more than volume. Your conversations shape your happiness more than you think -mehl et al. (2010) Wellbeing isn't about how much you socialize it's about how deeply. Unhappy people are stuck in shallow exchanges. Happy ones go deeper. -mehl et al. (2010) Table 1. Daily Interaction Variables: Reliabilities and Correlations With Well-Being In a 79 participant study high wellbeing people spend 35% less time alone and have double the amount of deep conversations. Small talk correlated negatively with happiness (r=.33, p<.01). -mehl et al. (2010) Someone's wellbeing is correlated with the amount of time spent talking to others. Happy people engage in 3x less small talk than their unhappy peers. -mehl et al. (2010) Less time alone and less trivial chatter, that's the recipe of a happier life. -mehl et al. (2010) i talk a lot huh Delivered yes but it's nice i like hearing your thoughts iMessage research with synapse link in bio