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SUBMITTER: Seresinhe CI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6418136 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seresinhe Chanuki Illushka CI Preis Tobias T MacKerron George G Moat Helen Susannah HS
Scientific reports 20190314 1
Does spending time in beautiful settings boost people's happiness? The answer to this question has long remained elusive due to a paucity of large-scale data on environmental aesthetics and individual happiness. Here, we draw on two novel datasets: first, individual happiness data from the smartphone app, Mappiness, and second, crowdsourced ratings of the "scenicness" of photographs taken across England from the online game Scenic-Or-Not. We find that individuals are happier in more scenic locat ...[more]