In a month that has been chock full of blargh, we definitely needed a good pick-me-up this week. And while seeing Chris Hemsworth in his Thor get-up helped a bit (mmmm, those biceps), this little bit of sexy news put QUITE a smile on all of our faces.

According to a study from ScienceDaily, the reason a lot of us are finding ourselves sluggish, bored, and maybe even depressed, is because we are spending way too much time doing the things we don’t like, and not enough time doing what we love, i.e. having sex or hanging out with friends.

The study, performed by Sebastian Pokutta and Christian Kroll, “examined Americans’ time use and focuses on how daily activities affect happiness.”

Via Quartz:

Kroll and Pokutta plugged data from a Day Reconstruction Study conducted in 2004 into a utility function that corrects for overindulgence, and then optimized it for a 16-hour day.

The result? We should be doing more of what we like (having sex and hanging out with friends) and less of what we don’t (working and commuting) in relatively small chunks.

Yep, you read that right – if we want to be happier, we should be spending more time getting booty! This seems to agree with our report that some folks in the Midwest and South should be gettin’ down more often!

What do you think? Do you notice that you’re happier when you have more sex? What else in your life makes your day better?

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