the Tracking Happiness team 
We are only just 10 days into 2022. Have you broken your new year’s resolution yet? If so, you are certainly not alone. Millions of new year’s resolutions have already been broken by now. But how come?
How much happier would you be if you could have kept all your new year’s resolutions? We surveyed 14.458 people and analyzed over 40,000 of their new year’s resolutions to find the answers.
Do you have a pet, and do you think your animal companion makes your life happier? Today, on World Animal Day, we release our findings that reveal just how much happiness pets can bring to our lives.
All vegans are negative, pretentious, unhappy and angry protestors. Or at least, that’s what the stereotypes have you believe. But is this actually true? It turns out to be the opposite: vegans are both happier than meat-eaters and more liked than what’s commonly believed.
If you were asked to describe what happiness means to you without actually using the word “happiness”, what would you answer? We asked over a thousand people this question and recorded the answers. As a result, we found a number of striking contrasts between different demographic groups.
How does the happiness of a country compare to its response to COVID-19? This data analysis is performed to shed light on how countries responded aroudn the world, and how it’s potentially influenced our happiness.
Men are 250% more likely to associate sex with happiness than women are, according to our study. This is based on the answers of 1,147 male and female respondents in a large-scale survey.
When you consider happiness and look at it from a distance, you will find that there are 3 things that can determine your happiness. Any source of happiness (or unhappiness) can be tied back to one of these factors. Our new study has found how much these factors are believed to contribute to our happiness, by asking 1,155 people from around the world.
It is widely known that happiness can both be a result of our circumstances or our internal state of mind. But how much of our happiness is genetic? Our new survey has found that 25% of our happiness is believed to be genetic. Here are all the details!
Roughly 35% of our happiness is determined by external circumstances. This is 3.5x more than what was concluded in a 2005 study. Our new study suggests that a much bigger part of our happiness is circumstantial.