{"id":174106,"date":"2025-02-10T00:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T14:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/flight-bookings-happiness-science-united-airlines\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T00:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T14:30:14","slug":"is-there-science-behind-flight-bookings-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=174106","title":{"rendered":"Is There Science Behind Flight Bookings &amp; Happiness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/united_airlines_icon-1.png?fit=contain&#038;h=22&#038;w=22\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>United Airlines<\/span><\/span> partnered with Dr Laurie Santos, a cognitive scientist, Ivy League professor, and host of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushkin.fm\/podcasts\/the-happiness-lab-with-dr-laurie-santos\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" ><em>The Happiness Lab<\/em><\/a> podcast, to analyze research that examines the link between happiness and booking a vacation. According to a new United survey, 70% of Americans say that booking a plane ticket for a vacation brings them happiness, and the majority of people say new experiences make them feel happier than material goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines&#8217; new study shows that people get a boost of happiness when booking flights to new destinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,13240,1867,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-mileageplus","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174107,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174106\/revisions\/174107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}