{"id":15947,"date":"2009-11-06T16:25:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T16:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_news_feeling_grumpy_is_good_for_you\/"},"modified":"2009-11-06T16:25:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T16:25:50","slug":"bbc_news_feeling_grumpy_is_good_for_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15947","title":{"rendered":"BBC News: Feeling grumpy &#39;is good for you&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bad mood? Don&#8217;t worry &#8211; according to research, it&#8217;s good for you.<\/p>\n<p>An Australian psychology expert who has been studying emotions has found being grumpy makes us think more clearly.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to those annoying happy types, miserable people are better at decision-making and less gullible, his experiments showed.<\/p>\n<p>While cheerfulness fosters creativity, gloominess breeds attentiveness and careful thinking, Professor Joe Forgas told Australian Science Magazine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8339647.stm\" title=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8339647.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bad mood? Don&#8217;t worry &#8211; according to research, it&#8217;s good for you. An Australian psychology expert who has been studying emotions has found being grumpy makes us think more clearly. In contrast to those annoying happy types, miserable<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15947\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}