It's Time To Get Happy!

An interesting new study led by researchers at Cornell University gives evidence that people are happiest in the morning and late at night.  Researchers observed 2.4 million tweets in 84 different english speaking countries.  They found that people tweeted things with words such as happy, brilliant, and enthusiastic, peeking in the morning and late night around 11pm to 12am.  Negative tweets were more likely to occur in the middle of the day.  When first reading this, I assumed this was because in the middle of the day we get tired from work and everyday hustles.  But it was found that negative tweets not only were more likely to happen in the middle of the day during the week, but also on the weekends.  Most people are not working on the weekends and therefore researchers actually give credit of this phenonemon to our 24 hour biological clock.  Our circadian rhythm gives us signals of when to sleep and wake and our body might be telling us that it is time to sleep around this time.  Being a college student can become quite difficult at times so instead of getting our coffee in the morning, perhaps we should be getting it in the middle of the day when our bodies want us to go back to sleep!