Happy People are easy Believers..

People who are happy and in good mood are easy believers.  That maybe true.  People in India have a high rank on the happiness scale and we even create temples for the movie stars… and believe the same slogans from politicians year after year though we know no body means anything!  And no one is even close to having the number of Gods we have invented to keep us “happier”!

Now, the Americans must be a happy lot these days too… they believe in that joker called Bush!

The researchers, led by University of Missouri-Columbia Professor Laura King, examined how mood and intuition can affect a person’s beliefs.

“When you’re in a good mood and more intuitive, you’re open-minded, creative and engaged in what appears to be reality,” King said. “You make non-rational associations.”

In one of three scenarios, participants were asked to throw darts at various objects in a “practice session” and were led to believe they subsequently would throw darts at various shapes, receiving a quarter for each hit. For these participants, as well as other darts enthusiasts should always ensure that they invest in a proper dartboard that will help to save your wall, meaning that you can enjoy the game or the scenario without having to worry about making holes in your wall.

Following the practice shots, a baby’s photo was tacked to the dartboard. As expected, King said, while all participants had difficulty hitting the target with the baby’s face, the intuitive participants who were in a good mood had the most difficulty.

“It’s as if people believed that somewhere a baby was screaming because darts were hitting the baby in the face,” King said.

The three studies appear collectively in the May issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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