10 Life-Changing Gifts You Can Give Yourself
New scientific research offers surprising ways to shower yourself with tranquility, creativity, longevity and more.
By Gretchen Reynolds
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4. Belonging
Undergraduates who considered chicken soup a comfort food and then were fed some scored higher on a psychological test of social connectedness than those who weren't given any soup. When given a word fragment like incl, they converted it into a "relationship word" such as include, instead of a neutral term, like incline, because the dish stirred a sense of connection.
From the
December 2011 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
