{"id":3317,"date":"2024-02-04T01:56:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T01:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/04\/the-sting-of-losing-an-election-hurts-worse-when-it-comes-as-a-big-surprise-torsten-bell\/"},"modified":"2024-02-04T01:56:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T01:56:06","slug":"the-sting-of-losing-an-election-hurts-worse-when-it-comes-as-a-big-surprise-torsten-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/04\/the-sting-of-losing-an-election-hurts-worse-when-it-comes-as-a-big-surprise-torsten-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"The sting of losing an election hurts worse when it comes as a big surprise | Torsten Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ll find out this year if new research is borne out by reality when Britain and America go to the polls<\/p>\n<p>What makes us happy? I don\u2019t mean in general \u2013 this isn\u2019t a column about the good life, your plans to escape to the country or the latest mindfulness app. This is 2024, a year of elections stretching from India to Britain and the US, so let\u2019s focus on what polls do for our perkiness.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, campaign length, with Britain almost certainly joining the US in an autumn vote,\u00a0won\u2019t make anyone happy. But let\u2019s get more scientific, with the help of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w32078\">new study<\/a> digging into US presidential elections between 2008 and 2020. The researchers surveyed voters\u2019 happiness on a one (extremely unhappy) to eight (extremely happy) scale before and after election.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/feb\/03\/shock-election-result-this-year-could-turn-you-into-a-sore-loser\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ll find out this year if new research is borne out by reality when Britain and America go to the polls What makes us happy? I don\u2019t mean in general \u2013 this isn\u2019t a column about the good life, your plans to escape to the country or the latest mindfulness app. This is 2024, a &#8230; <a title=\"The sting of losing an election hurts worse when it comes as a big surprise | Torsten Bell\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/04\/the-sting-of-losing-an-election-hurts-worse-when-it-comes-as-a-big-surprise-torsten-bell\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The sting of losing an election hurts worse when it comes as a big surprise | Torsten Bell\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}