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	<description>Marketing the Pursuit of Happiness</description>
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		<title>Happy Place, USA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, things can make us happy, but so can experiences, including the experience of &#8220;place.&#8221; A new poll says that the happiest states in the good ol&#8217; U S of A are, in order: Utah, Hawaii and Wyoming. At the bottom of the list? Kentucky, Mississippi and West Virginia. Of course, the real trick to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do commercials make us happy? Yes, they do.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that&#8217;s the findings of a recent study anyway. In short, the study says that when things we enjoy, like watching TV or reading a book or eating chocolate, are made to last longer, the experience is more intense and more gratifying. Commercials (even the crappy ones, which is most of them) extend our TV [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone apps do it all&#8230;including make you happier.</title>
		<link>http://www.barefootproximity.com/blog/rocketing/2009/03/iphone-apps-do-it-allincluding-make-you-happier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s true. There&#8217;s now an iPhone (and iTouch) app, called the Happy Tapper,  that promises to make you happier. The software asks that, for one month, you log in a &#8220;gratitude journal&#8221; five things that make you happy each day. Research suggests that when we pause to consider what makes us happy that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debunking happiness myths</title>
		<link>http://www.barefootproximity.com/blog/rocketing/2009/03/debunking-happiness-myths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slate has kicked off a &#8220;Happiness Project&#8221; in which one of their writers is debunking happiness myths. The series begins today with the myth that &#8220;happy people are annoying and stupid.&#8221; Somber, pessimistic people may seem smarter, but research clearly indicates no relation between happiness and smarts. Sorry, poets.
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		<title>The times&#8230;how they haven&#8217;t changed.</title>
		<link>http://www.barefootproximity.com/uncategorized/2008/06/the-timeshow-they-havent-changed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kissing</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in the midst of yet another great book &#8212; &#8220;Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are&#8221; by Rob Walker of The New York Times. On page 96, I cam across Walker&#8217;s interesting summary of a particular article:
&#8220;[Consumers] are banding together, becoming &#8216;better educated and better organized,&#8217; with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Praise makes people as happy as cash.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kissing</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters Science today reported on a couple of new studies that suggest people get as big of a kick out of being praised as they do by being handed cash. Our social standing is as important as our economic standing.
As reported in the piece, researchers &#8220;&#8230;found that these seemingly different kinds of rewards &#8212; a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does money buy happiness? No. Wait, yes. Uh, maybe.</title>
		<link>http://www.barefootproximity.com/blog/rocketing/2008/04/does-money-buy-happiness-no-wait-yes-uh-maybe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kissing</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a little economic ditty called the Easterlin Paradox (after economist Richard Easterlin) which suggests that economic growth within a country does not necessarily lead to greater happiness (except for those in poverty, struggling to stay alive, who then come upon the means to pay for basic necessities). What Easterlin believed had a greater impact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Happiness v. Blue Happiness</title>
		<link>http://www.barefootproximity.com/blog/rocketing/2008/04/red-happiness-v-blue-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Kissing</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not out to offend anyone&#8217;s political sensibilities, but some research analysis by Arthur Brooks suggests that conservatives are more happy than liberals. Conservatives were about twice as likely to call themselves &#8220;very happy&#8221; when compared to liberals. And you can&#8217;t blame it on President George Bush; according to the pollsters, conservatives have considered themselves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The pursuit of unhappiness?</title>
		<link>http://www.barefootproximity.com/blog/rocketing/2008/04/the-pursuit-of-unhappiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again my nose has found its way inside a really enjoyable and thought-provoking book. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Against Happiness,&#8221; and its written by Eric G. Wilson, an English professor at Wake Forest University. Though I&#8217;m not yet finished reading the book, I can sum up its main point like this:
The American culture is so happiness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Click and be happy!</title>
		<link>http://www.barefootproximity.com/blog/rocketing/2008/04/click-and-be-happy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gallup people tell us in a recent international study&#8220;But wait!&#8221;, you say. &#8220;Obviously those with TV&#8217;s have more money than those without and, therefore, can afford more happiness.&#8221; But, Gallup says, even when you consider those with and those without TV&#8217;s who make the same amount of money, people with the TV&#8217;s still come [...]]]></description>
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