What Your Vacation Says About You
Vacations say a lot about people. For one thing, where people choose to go indicates how much they like to be around others. In new work in the Journal of Research in Personality, psychologists from the University of Virginia quizzed college students about their geographical preferences and found that introverts prefer the mountains while extroverts prefer the ocean.
.. To begin with, vacation planning tends to bring happiness.Research in the journal Applied Research in Quality of Life shows that people actually derive most of the happiness from their vacations in the planning phase.
.. Only people with simple, relaxed trips seem to get a happiness boost. Think of this as the Vacation Paradox: You have to choose between being happy beforehand, or happy afterward.