Advertising Makes Us Unhappy, The Myth of Maximum Heart Rate, and How Parents Can Help Language Researchers with an App
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🗓️ 31 July 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Learn about why more advertising means less happiness; how to calculate your maximum heart rate; and how parents and kids can help language researchers during the pandemic, with help from an app called KidTalk.
The more ads we see, the less happy we are by Kelsey Donk
- Advertising Makes Us Unhappy. (2019, December 31). Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2020/01/advertising-makes-us-unhappy
- Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal. (2019). Voxeu.org. https://voxeu.org/article/advertising-major-source-human-dissatisfaction
- Michel, C., Sovinsky, M., Proto, E., & Oswald, A. J. (2019). Advertising as a Major Source of Human Dissatisfaction: Cross-National Evidence on One Million Europeans. The Economics of Happiness, 217–239. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15835-4_10
Max heart rate? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Julien)
- All About Heart Rate (Pulse). (2015). www.Heart.org. https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/high-blood-pressure/the-facts-about-high-blood-pressure/all-about-heart-rate-pulse
- Quer, G., Gouda, P., Galarnyk, M., Topol, E. J., & Steinhubl, S. R. (2020). Inter- and intraindividual variability in daily resting heart rate and its associations with age, sex, sleep, BMI, and time of year: Retrospective, longitudinal cohort study of 92,457 adults. PLOS ONE, 15(2), e0227709. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227709
- Can you sing while you work out? (2019). Mayo Clinic. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/fitness/in-depth/exercise-intensity/art-20046887
- “Maximum” Heart Rate Theory Is Challenged. (2001, April 23). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/24/health/maximum-heart-rate-theory-is-challenged.html
KidTalk lets parents create audio scrapbooks while helping language research by Steffie Drucker
- Home | KidTalk. (2020). KidTalk. https://www.kidtalkscrapbook.org/
- Kidtalkscrapbook. (2020, June 30). Say What? - Kidtalkscrapbook. Medium. https://medium.com/@kidtalkscrapbook/say-what-7dceb4761c01
- Follow Emily Calandrelli @thespacegal on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@thespacegal?lang=en
- Follow @TheSpaceGal on Twitter https://twitter.com/thespacegal
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from |
| 0:04.9 | Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Goff, and I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about |
| 0:09.3 | why more advertising means less happiness and we'll answer a listener question about how to calculate your maximum heart rate. |
| 0:16.0 | You'll also learn about how parents and kids can help language researchers during the pandemic. |
| 0:21.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. What do you think makes a happy country? the Well, sure, maybe. But thanks to new research, we know one thing that makes a country unhappy, |
| 0:36.8 | advertising. The more billboards, commercials, and internet ads we see, the less happy we are. |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, it's not just you. |
| 0:46.0 | And as for why ads can make us unhappy, |
| 0:49.0 | if you think about it, it kind of makes sense. |
| 0:52.0 | By definition, advertisements make us want things. |
| 0:56.2 | They're designed to make you feel like your life needs something to be complete. |
| 1:01.1 | When you sense a void in your life, you'll spend more on things to fill it. |
| 1:05.0 | Advertisers would disagree with that though. |
| 1:08.0 | They would say their ads aren't about making people feel incomplete. |
| 1:12.0 | They just provide people with information on what's |
| 1:14.8 | out there to buy. Well, researchers decided to put this argument to the test by looking at the |
| 1:20.5 | data. They looked at the life satisfaction of more than 900,000 |
| 1:25.0 | European citizens from 27 countries. And they didn't just do a quick dip. |
| 1:30.3 | They checked in on how these people had been doing from 1980 to 2011. |
| 1:35.0 | And they also tracked the amount of advertising spending in their countries over the same period. |
| 1:40.0 | They found that when companies spend more money on advertising in one country, the well-being of people who live there goes down. |
| 1:49.0 | According to the study, when people are exposed to a lot of advertising? |
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