Short Tips Delivered “in the Moment” Can Boost Positive Emotion

We are very grateful to Peter Murray (Unilever) for his statistical support and to Yijiao Wang, Sara Li and Louis Hsu (Cambridge Well-being Institute [Asia]). The studies were funded by Unilever (www.unilever.com).

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