Happier People Live More Active Lives: Using Smartphones to Link Happiness and Physical Activity.
- Submitting institution
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University of Cambridge
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 1905
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1371/journal.pone.0160589
- Title of journal
- PLoS One
- Article number
- ARTN e0160589
- First page
- e0160589
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 1932-6203
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 47
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The dataset employed in this work is likely the biggest and temporally longest crowdsourced experience sampling dataset on combined mood and passive sensing (location, accelerometer data) from mobile phones: this was a very impactful project (emotionsense) which is considered seminal in the psychology/computer science community. This particular study is on activity as reported by accelerometer in phones and mood and finds for the first time that daily leve activity (not just physical) is correlated with happiness reporting. This paper was covered by press release:https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/physical-activity-even-in-small-amounts-benefits-both-physical-and-psychological-well-being
Followed up by various media outlets including:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/well/move/get-up-and-move-it-may-make-you-happier.html
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/even-small-amounts-of-exercise-boost-happiness-finds-new-study-1.3230173
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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