People who use more happy words are not necessarily happier

People who use more happy words are not necessarily happier

The premise of this line of research is that our word choices reflect our psychological states – that if someone uses more positive or negative emotional words, this is a good indication that they are actually experiencing those emotions. The researchers found that – contrary to the assumptions of some past studies – the number of positive and negative emotional words was not associated with participants’ actual mood. In an exploratory analysis, the authors also examined whether any other sets of words unrelated to emotion could predict participants’ mood.

Source: digest.bps.org.uk