iPhones don't make you happy, but people can: study


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 10 Oct 2013

iPhones and other gadgets can be useful, but they don't make us happy — but people and human relationships do, at least according to a new Swedish study. 

A team of researchers from the University of Gothenburg scoured Swedish news articles looking for words that appeared with the word happiness. After analysing more than 1.5 million words, "people" words — celebrities such as Prince Daniel and soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimovic, as well as words like "grandmother" and personal pronouns like "you," "us," and "we" — were closely associated with the word happiness. 

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