Monday Morning Blues Are a Myth, Say Academics
20th August 2012
People’s moods on Mondays are actually no worse than on any other week day barring Friday, a survey of more than 300,000 people found.
The popular fixation on the idea of “Blue Monday” should be given the status of a “cultural myth”, the team behind the new findings wrote in the Journal of Positive Psychology.
“Despite our global beliefs about lousy Mondays, we conclude that this belief should be abandoned,” said lead researcher Prof Arthur Stone, of Stony Brook University in New York state.
Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.
“The perception of Blue Mondays is likely prevalent due to the extreme contrast in mood from Sunday to Monday, even though there is no real difference in mood with Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Don’t worry! Be happy!
August 20th, 2012 at 05:40
though there is no real difference in mood with Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
All this research to determine that dull jobs cause dull moods five days a week.