People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.

Endlessly amused by people's minds.

People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.