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More InfoOK Skip to main content Mobile Navigation Psychology Today * Find a Therapist Find a Therapist Therapists * Therapists * Psychiatrists * Treatment Centers * Support Groups Therapists : Login | Sign Up United States * Austin, TX * Brooklyn, NY * Chicago, IL * Denver, CO * Houston, TX * Los Angeles, CA * New York, NY * Portland, OR * San Diego, CA * San Francisco, CA * Seattle, WA * Washington, DC * Atlanta, GA * Sacramento, CA * Get Help Mental Health * Addiction * Anxiety * ADHD * Asperger's * Autism * Bipolar Disorder * Chronic Pain * Depression * Eating Disorders Personality * Passive Aggression * Personality * Shyness Personal Growth * Goal Setting * Happiness * Positive Psychology * Stopping Smoking Relationships * Low Sexual Desire * Relationships * Sex Family Life * Child Development * Parenting View Help Index Do I Need Help? * Self Tests * Therapy Center NEW Recently Diagnosed? * Diagnosis Dictionary * Types of Therapy Talk to Someone * Find a Therapist * Find a Treatment Center * Find a Psychiatrist * Find a Support Group * Find Teletherapy * Magazine Current January 2023 5 Ways to Find Purpose Knowing what you value will help you build the most meaningful life possible. Subscribe Recent Issue Archive * Today NEWS * The Bright Side of Personality and Its Benefits * New Study Strengthens Link Between Air Pollution, Depression * Is a Person's Sex a Social Construct? * What Binge Drinking Does to Your Gut and Your Brain Essential Reads * Therapy Dogs Can Unite College Students and Seniors * 4 Reasons Why Love Is Both Egoistic and Altruistic * How to Create Insight in Patients With Psychotic Disorders * The Motherhood Penalty in the Workplace Trending Topics * Coronavirus Disease 2019 * Narcissism * Dementia * Bias * Affective Forecasting * Neuroscience SEE ALL us Search Search Search Verified by Psychology Today Art Markman Ph.D. Ulterior Motives FAST, HAPPY, AND IMPULSIVE I: SPEED MAKES YOU HAPPY THINK FAST, BE HAPPY! Posted May 19, 2009 * Share * Tweet * Email I went to see the movie Duplicity a while back. That's the one starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen as spies who get involved in corporate espionage. The movie is not brilliant, but it is fun. Part of the fun comes from scenes of rapid-fire dialogue between the stars. In that way, it reminded me of the old show Moonlighting (with Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd) that also involved these rapid exchanges. In retrospect, the plot of the movie was filled with holes and logical gaps. There was probably one plot-twist too many. Yet, the movie was undeniably fun. Why is that? One reason why the movie was fun is that there is growing evidence that fast thinking can actually cause happiness. Intuitively, of course, we know that speed and happiness are related. When you are sad, you tend to drag around physically. Happy people have lots of energy, and they tend to be bright bubbly people. But a correlation like that could go both ways. Maybe sadness makes you tired, and that slows down your thinking. Perhaps happiness energizes the body, which speeds up thinking. Emily Pronin and Elana Jacobs discuss the relationship between speed of thinking and happiness in a 2008 paper in Perspectives on Psychological Science. They review a lot of evidence suggesting that there are two aspects of thinking that combine to influence happiness. First, there is raw speed of thinking. Situations and factors that make people think faster improve their mood. People who are asked to listen to fast music rate themselves as happier than those who are asked to listen to slow music. People who are asked to generate ideas quickly rate themselves as happier than people who are asked to generate ideas slowly. People who are asked to make fast decisions rate themselves as happier than those who are asked to deliberate. Second, there is the variability of thinking. That is, you are happier when you think about many different things than if you think about the same thing over and over. In particular, people who are depressed and anxious tend to ruminate. That is, they chew over the same set of thoughts repeatedly. Thinking about many different things, though, tends to lift mood. Indeed, manic states, which involve a highly positive mood, also involve a rapid alternation among thoughts. On the one hand, these results suggest a straightforward way to lift your mood when you need to. If you want to feel a bit better, play some fast music, watch a show with rapid-fire dialogue. Talk to friends who also think fast. Generally speaking, do things to speed up your thinking, and your mood will improve. If it were that easy, of course, we'd all have tools to make us think fast all the time, and presumably we'd all be happy (or at least happier). But there is a downside to thinking fast. Thinking fast increases impulsive behaviors. 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