If you woke up this morning thinking the toughest day of the week had been and gone, you were wrong.
Mondays may have long been thought of as miserable, but we’re more likely to feel down in the dumps on a Tuesday.
According to researchers from the London School of Economics, our moods are at their brightest on Saturday, with the weekend feelgood factor continuing into Sunday.
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But while levels of contentment drop when the working week begins on Monday, it is on Tuesday that we reach our lowest ebb.
Academics used an iPhone application called Mappiness to log the moods of 22,000 participants over two months.
‘It seems plausible that on Monday the weekend has not quite worn off,’ said George MacKerron, from LSE’s Department of Geography and Environment.
‘By Tuesday they are well into the working week and the following weekend is not yet in sight.’
The data was collated by sending alerts to volunteers’ mobile phones twice a day.
The messages asked how they felt, who they were with, where they were and what they were doing.
The messages asked how they felt, who they were with, where they were and what they were doing.
Using satellite navigation systems, their exact locations were also logged – allowing the scientists to pinpoint the happiest parts of the country.
Good day? The London School of Economics used an iPhone application called Mappiness to log the moods of 22,000 participants over two months
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the highest levels of contentment were found in seaside towns, with Bournemouth and Dorset coming top.
But things were less cheerful for those in the City of London, Eastbourne and Slough – the setting for Ricky Gervais’s comedy series The Office.
Mr MacKerron added: ‘We hope to find better answers to questions about the impacts of natural beauty, environmental problems – maybe even aspects of climate – on individual and national wellbeing.’
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