January 21, 2019
Today is the third Monday in January, the most depressing day of the year also known as “Blue Monday”. But is this theory scientifically confirmed?
The most depressing day of the year
According to scientists, the third Monday in January would be the most depressing day of the year. Why ? Quite simply because the holidays are over, spring too far away, the weather gray, wet and cold. In short, optimal conditions to have a blow of the blues and which bears a name: “Blue Monday”.
As a reminder, it was the Irish psychologist and professor at Cardiff University, Cliff Arnal, who established in 2005 that Monday was the most depressing of the year. He has also developed a mathematical formula to determine the day when we are most likely to be depressed. The latter takes into account the weather, our debts, the time since Christmas and the time since our New Year’s resolutions, our motivation and our need to move.
“Blue Monday”, a hoax to sell trips to the sun
Scientific formula or deception? More and more voices argue that Blue Monday does not exist. Some see it as a commercial pretext. It is true that praising stays in the sun is a boon for tourism professionals …
A journalist from Guardian discovered that the pseudo-scientist had received money from the travel agency Sky travel. So you have no real reason to be more depressed today than another day, since “Blue Monday” is just a marketing operation. Probably the same trick as the happiest day of the year: ” It would be the third Friday in June, revealed by … the same Cliff Arnall in a study, this time for a brand of ice cream »We read in the columns of Parisian.
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Perrine de Robien
