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The Balance
Contributor at Scandinavia Standard
- 59 stories
- Writing since 2026
The Balance writes about wellbeing the Nordic way. Less lecture, more evidence, and a healthy suspicion of anything sold as a lifestyle.
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- Aug 24, 2026 Across six studies involving 2,312 people, University of Missouri-led researchers compared hope with positive emotions… + Psychology
- Aug 24, 2026 For decades, data from 145 countries supported the same finding + Psychology
- Aug 23, 2026 People who reach their 60s without close support aren't necessarily cold or difficult + Psychology
- Aug 22, 2026 Harvard tracked the same group of people for 80 years and found that the single strongest predictor of a long, healthy… + Psychology
- Aug 22, 2026 The introvert brain isn't simply quieter + Psychology
- Aug 22, 2026 Copenhagen was ranked the world's happiest city in the 2026 Happy City Index, with six Nordic cities filling the top ten + Lifestyle
- Aug 22, 2026 The assumption that introverts are better listeners than extroverts + Psychology
- Aug 21, 2026 A Finnish study of 2,264 adults found that heavier coffee drinkers had less visceral fat and more skeletal muscle… + Health & Beauty
- Aug 21, 2026 In 1990, 55 percent of American men said they had six or more close friends + Psychology
- Aug 19, 2026 Researchers tracked 28,000 adults across 166 countries from 2019 to 2024 and found global emotional intelligence scores… + Lifestyle
- Aug 19, 2026 The “21 days to form a habit” rule came from a plastic surgeon’s observations in 1960, not an experiment + Psychology
- Aug 18, 2026 Researchers who study ageing keep returning to one uncomfortable truth + Lifestyle