{"id":3826,"date":"2010-03-17T02:06:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2010-03-17T02:06:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T07:06:08","slug":"repost-chit-chat-happiness-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/17\/repost-chit-chat-happiness-and-you\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: Chit-chat, happiness, and you"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Researchers confirmed what others have already established: <strong>The less time people spend alone, the greater their sense of well-being. But the point, and the important finding, is the relationship between well-being and substantive conversation over small talk. They found that people who have more deep conversations than chit-chat are happier. <\/strong>The happiest people spent less time alone and more time talking, but they also had more than twice as many substantive conversations and one-third as much small talk as the unhappiest people.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-introverts-corner\/201003\/chit-chat-happiness-and-you\">via . Chit-chat, happiness, and you <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers confirmed what others have already established: The less time people spend alone, the greater their sense of well-being. But the point, and the important finding, is the relationship between well-being and substantive conversation over small talk. They found that people who have more deep conversations than chit-chat are happier. The happiest people spent less &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/17\/repost-chit-chat-happiness-and-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost :: Chit-chat, happiness, and you&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","category-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}