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Happiness helps football players do better, and it could help economies too

  • Written by David A. Fleming-Muñoz, Economist, CSIRO
Happiness helps football players do better, and it could help economies tooThere's a strong correlation between happiness and innovation. Shutterstock

World Cup football teams with a higher proportion of players smiling in their official portraits have scored more goals on average in all group phases since 1970. The authors of this study argue that smiling is a reflection of confidence. Greater confidence results in a...

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