#232 Happiness - Happier in 12 Minutes
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
A quick and easy technique to feel happier and less anxious in 12 minutes. This is based on a study done by Douglas Gentile, Dawn Sweet & Lanmiao He entitled, "Caring for Others Cares for the Self: An Experimental Test of Brief Downward Social Comparison, Loving-Kindness, And Interconnectedness Contemplations," reported in the Journal of Happiness Studies, 2019. To learn more about the Happiness Podcast, go to: http://www.HappinessPodcast.org. To learn more about Dr. Puff's Corporate Workshops, go to: http://www.SuccessBeyondYourImagination.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. |
| 0:12.6 | Sometimes as we go through life, it'd be really nice to have a technique to improve our mood, |
| 0:18.3 | to be happier, to find more joy in our lives. |
| 0:22.0 | Well, the good news is a new study just came out that shows there is a way to do this, a technique that can increase our happiness in 12 minutes. |
| 0:30.0 | Because to be truthful, sometimes in life, it's just hard. We're in a bad mood and we want to change it. |
| 0:38.0 | So it would be nice to have a technique in hand that we can use when we're stuck and don't know what to do. And I actually like this technique. I think it's a good one. I've used it throughout my life and hope all of us will embrace it since now there's research to support it. This study was done at Iowa State |
| 0:56.1 | University and it was reported very recently 2019. So here's what these researchers did. They are examining three different ways or techniques |
| 1:07.2 | that we can use in 12 minutes to help reduce anxiety and increase our level of happiness and overall well-being. |
| 1:15.0 | The first technique they call loving kindness, and what the students were supposed to do is |
| 1:19.8 | as they were walking around for 12 minutes, they were supposed to look at other people and say this phrase. |
| 1:25.0 | I wish for this person to be happy. |
| 1:28.0 | And the students in the study were really encouraged to mean it. |
| 1:32.0 | The second group was called |
| 1:33.4 | Interconnectiveness and as the students walked around they were to think and |
| 1:37.4 | feel how we're all interconnected with each other. They are encouraged to focus |
| 1:42.3 | on hopes and feelings that they might have in common with other people. |
| 1:47.0 | And then the downward social comparison was a third group. |
| 1:50.0 | The focus of these students was to look at other people and see that they were better off than the other people they saw. |
| 1:56.0 | And they also had a control group that just walked around looking at people's clothing, |
| 2:01.0 | accessories or makeup without any comparison or comments about these things. |
| 2:07.0 | So what do you think they found of these three groups which one was good, which one helped people feel happy, and which one didn't. |
| 2:15.5 | Well, as you can probably guess, the downward social comparison group showed no benefits |
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