Balance
Wellbeing
Evidence-minded writing on rest, health, and the Nordic approach to a good life.
- Aug 17, 2026 People who grew up with little affection tend to carry recognisable patterns into adulthood, but the kindest, most… By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 17, 2026 Thinking outside the box really can bring unexpected benefits, but the phrase oversells how easy it is By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 17, 2026 When German adults rated how much care they had received from each grandparent, the order ran maternal grandmother… By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 16, 2026 People believe that asking for advice makes them look incompetent, and in one set of experiments the advisers rated… By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 16, 2026 In a replication run across dozens of laboratories, people who described a robber's face before picking him out of a… By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 16, 2026 Psychologists have found two separate routes to being deferred to, one built on intimidation and one on demonstrated… By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 15, 2026 A 20-year Swedish study of nearly 30,000 women found that nonsmokers who avoided active sun exposure had a life… By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 15, 2026 Finland endured another winter of freezing temperatures and brutally short days, then was named the world's happiest… By The Balance
- Aug 15, 2026 What we remember about the house we grew up in is usually a smell or a corner, not a fact, and that is no accident By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 15, 2026 The feeling that things once normal may no longer be is real, but two findings suggest our sense of normal is far… By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 15, 2026 The Danish idea of hygge isn't just about candles and cosy rooms By The Balance
- Aug 15, 2026 The gap between knowing what good parenting needs and having the energy for it is rarely a failure of love but of… By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 15, 2026 The Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre's 2025 World Happiness Report found that sharing meals with others and trusting… By The Balance
- Aug 14, 2026 The whites of the eyes may be one of the face’s quietest beauty signals By Scandinavia Standard Editorial Team
- Aug 14, 2026 Shirley Temple was America’s biggest box-office star before she was old enough for middle school, earning millions as… By Scandinavia Standard Editorial Team
- Aug 14, 2026 Psychology says people who feel most like themselves when they're alone aren't antisocial or damaged, they're often… By Daniel Moran