And for this segment we call Happy Facts, we welcome in our favorite happiness contributors, our section editor, Chris Libby.

Hello.

And our science editor, Paula Phelps, from Nashville, Tennessee.

Greetings.

Glad to have you guys here.

And what we do in this segment is pretty straightforward is we spend a week

researching our favorite positive psychology facts that we all meet here in the radio

studio and share them with each other, break them down a little bit.

And then Paula takes these facts, writes a blog about them, gives you further information

and posted on live happy.com.

And we thank Paula for doing that, because frankly, we don't have enough time here to get

deep into these amazing facts. So let's go around the room here, sharing these facts in no

particular order. And this week, we have a theme. Everybody picked a pet fact, which is kind of cool.

So let's start out with Chris Libby.

Chris, what's your pet fact this week?

Thank you.

Pet dogs helps kids beat stress.

And how do they do that?

Well, according to new research from the University of Florida, pet dogs can provide valuable

social support for kids when they're in stressful situations like public

speaking or taking a really important math test.

The dogs don't take the test.

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