What country is always smiling?

Positive Paraguay Paraguay, the little South American country with the chilled-out reputation, ranked highest worldwide for Positive Experiences, and has held this position since 2015. Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, is also the country that smiles the most globally.

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Hey, how are you?

This simple question we ask of others on a daily basis yields a wide range of answers and emotions – from happy to sad – but when asked on a global scale, the answers are quite fascinating according to the Global Emotions Report.

In 2018, US-based analytics company Gallup asked 151,000 people in 143 countries a series of questions about how they’d felt the day before. Were they angry or sad? Did they smile or laugh? Did they learn something new?

More than seven in 10 people worldwide said they experienced a lot of enjoyment (71%), felt well-rested (72%), smiled or laughed a lot (74%) and felt treated with respect (87%).

Positive Paraguay

Gallup’s measure of the world’s positive experiences had been on the decline for a few years, but that trend reversed in 2018, with more people reporting good experiences the day before the survey than they did in 2017. Paraguay, the little South American country with the chilled-out reputation, ranked highest worldwide for Positive Experiences, and has held this position since 2015. Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, is also the country that smiles the most globally. According to the report, Nigerians were most likely to have said they’d smiled or laughed a lot the day before, with more than nine in 10 giving a positive answer. The US was the 39th most positive country, the UK was 46th and India ranked 93rd. The most negative country was Chad, followed by Niger.

Top 5 countries with highest positive experiences

Paraguay Panama Guatemala Mexico El Salvador

Top 5 countries with highest negative experiences

Chad Niger Sierra Leone Iraq Iran

Top 5 countries who are most stressed out

Greece Philippines Tanzania Albania Iran

While life in Australia and New Zealand is one of happiness and positivity, according to the study, neither country placed in the top or bottom five for any emotion, and it’s unclear exactly how many people were surveyed in each country. According to the United Nations’ World Happiness Report, Scandinavian countries top the list of the world’s happiest people. While Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Iceland reported the most happiness in the U.N’s study, Gallup’s survey found even higher levels of positive emotions in South America.

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How long is a romantic hug?

Psychologists in London claim they have cracked the code on the ideal embrace, saying hugs should last between five and 10 seconds. According to researchers at Goldsmiths university, longer hugs were found to provide an immediate pleasure boost compared to shorter ones (lasting just one second).

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Looking to give your loved one the perfect hug? Psychologists in London claim they have cracked the code on the ideal embrace, saying hugs should last between five and 10 seconds. According to researchers at Goldsmiths university, longer hugs were found to provide an immediate pleasure boost compared to shorter ones (lasting just one second). Rather than the style of embrace, the perfect hug is all about length. In the study, a group of blindfolded participants hugged for one second, five or 10 seconds, and reported how pleasant it was. The pandemic deprived people of hugging at a time they needed it most, so it comes as no surprise that longer hugs were rated the best, while the one second hugs resulted in lower immediate pleasure. When it came to squeeze style, the team found a criss-cross hug is the most comfortable, with neck-waist being described as more formal. While researchers suggested that "extremely brief hugs" should be avoided, it is unclear just how long is too long. "Our findings suggest that longer hugs are more pleasant than very short hugs and criss-cross hugs are more common than neck-waist hugs," researchers said in their paper. "We anticipate that the studies presented here will provide a foundation for future research on pleasant touch, especially for research on hugs, which are highly prevalent but still widely understudied. "Our findings on hug pleasure align with research indicating that robots are evaluated less positively after a 'too short' [of a] hug, indicating that very short hugs are less pleasant than longer hugs."

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