Linda Geddes spends a week with a clown, a comic and some toddlers to test the science behind the uplifting power of play
If foreign politics, environmental collapse and the impending takeover of the world by machines are leaving you glum, psychologists have identified a strategy that could help bolster your resilience: “lemonading”.
Rather than wallowing in an acerbic soup of despair, researchers have discovered that people with high levels of playfulness may be better equipped to cope with the dud cards life throws at them.
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