The weekend is here, and feeling happy is a given with Chinese New Year & Valentine’s Day happening on the same weekend for the first time in a long time.

However, there is an added reason for the spring in your step as Friday looms, as it has been proven that the time between Friday evenings and Sunday afternoons, people are generally in a better mood and experience fewer aches and pains.

A team of psychologists tracked 74 regularly employed men and women for three weeks, paging them 3 times daily to check in. With each page, the subjects answered questions pertaining to their feelings and general well-being. Not only do people feel better mentally and physically on the weekend, they feel more competent.

The study’s authors found this “weekend effect” exists no matter what a person’s job title is. They believe that it is due to the greater autonomy humans feel when they aren’t tethered to the rules and structure of the workplace.

Little wonder why I love Fridays & dread Sundays.

Source: Asylum