A Stanford psychologist spent a year in Tromsø, where the sun disappears for two months each winter, then surveyed Norwegians from Oslo to Svalbard. The farther north they lived, the more positively they viewed winter—and those with the warmest attitudes toward the cold also reported the greatest life satisfaction.

A Norwegian survey found that warmer attitudes to winter tracked both northern latitude and greater wellbeing, but its cross-sectional design leaves cause and effect unresolved.

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