Few things remedy the heart quite like watching a bouncing, playful puppies. Having a bad day? Feeling blue? Feeling a lag at work? Put on a puppy video — science says it's good for you. (No, really.)
Back in 2012, The Huffington Post reported on a study that found that cute animal videos and live feeds not only improve your mood, they may actually help increase productivity. "When the participants rated the images of both baby and adult animals (Experiment 3), the former were rated as more pleasant than the latter," concluded researchers. "In the first two experiments, viewing cute images improved performance on tasks that required carefulness."
There you have it: an actual reason to be spending your free minutes staring at adorable baby animal videos, straight from the think tanks of scientific advancement.
So if you're in need of a work boost, allow me to share with you an unsupervised room of puppies playing fetch with no assistance from their caretakers. It appears that puppies have the natural inclination to entertain themselves with or without their human counterparts. May this near 3-minute video of gleeful puppy shenanigans provide you with all of the productivity you need to make it through the workday.
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