Original investigations, profile features, and longer essays from the Scandinavia Standard editorial team. Pieces published here go through additional research and review.
A while ago, I found myself standing in the kitchen with a cup of coffee, wondering who I would talk to that day.
A Norwegian survey found that warmer attitudes to winter tracked both northern latitude and greater wellbeing, but its cross-sectional design leaves cause and effect unresolved.
Sweden's high national happiness ranking conceals a wide age divide, but the 30th-place comparison is a hypothetical illustration rather than a new official ranking.
Not long after I retired, I became unexpectedly good at filling a diary. I exercised, met people for coffee, worked on projects, made plans and wrote lists.
A global survey found high life satisfaction in many nature-dependent communities with very low cash incomes, widening the evidence on how human wellbeing can be supported.
Two short student diary studies produced the famous 35 and 43 per cent estimates. Later work suggests beneficial routines may explain part of what looks like willpower.
Lagom is usually translated as ‘not too much, not too little’. Its real usefulness lies in judging an amount, size or moment as suitable, not merely sufficient.
The line women hear most often after a miscarriage is some version of a timeline: give it a few weeks, and the worst will lift.
Meal sharing strongly predicted wellbeing across 142 countries, but loneliness was measured in a 13-country subset and the observational data cannot establish causal direction.
