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Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 23 November 2015 06:46:15AM 2 points [-]

science-Based No. Bad. Not helpful.

Why not helpful?

real secret kill me now

I speak in the tone of listicle articles reluctantly, as I wrote above. It's icky, but necessary to get this past the editors at Lifehack and elsewhere.

a recent study not linked to

Actually, it is linked to. You can check out the article for the link, but here is the link itself if you're curious: www.albany.edu/~muraven/publications/promotion files/articles/tice et al, 2007.pdf

Smile or laugh, watch a funny video or two. no. This is reaching not-even-wrong territory.

This I just don't get. If experiments say you should watch a funny video, and they do as the link above states, why is this not-even wrong territory?