Watching a marathon of comedy shows on T.V. may not lead you to happiness, it can even impair.

It is after a team of five university professors evaluated the emotions of people during certain activities. They found out that while the standard of living has risen over the last 40 years, happiness isn’t.

One of the reasons: watching television is always done in isolation. People nowadays does not have enough human interaction. What people need is an active, recreating lifestyle filled with human warmth. “Make the effort to go out and engage with your family or friends or exercise or read. It would make your life better,” University of California - San Diego professor David Schkade said.

Here’s a simple yet profound quote from the Dalai Lama: “We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. “