In the recent series Making Australia Happy there was some discussion about how we can catch a mood - or pass one on. In fact their website even has a Happiness Map.And you can find out more about these kinds of projects under the Happy Planet Index.
I'm going to ask myself: "What mood do I want to pass on?" I noticed today as I drove in peak hour traffic in Melbourne that I was cranky about someone cutting in - but then I realised I could choose not to be. So I did. Nice :)
The University of Cambridge has this great article about mood mapping across geographies.... It makes me wonder.... can we create States of Serenity, Precincts of Peace, Neighbourhoods of Niceness, what about entire Countries of Calm? Yes! It appears we can. Let's try it.
Mapping personality types across countries ....
Ongoing research by
Dr Jason Rentfrow, at the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, and Dr Sam Gosling, at the University of Texas, aims to examine geographic variation in personality. In a large-scale project partially funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), data collected by online survey from over three-quarters of a million individuals in the USA revealed that personalities are not randomly distributed but are clustered into distinct geographic patterns.
