{"174281":{"#nid":"174281","#data":{"type":"news","title":"A Woman\u0027s Perfect Day: Time with a Loved One","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELadies, what would your \u201cperfect day\u201d look like? According to a new study by Georgia Tech and Jacobs University in Germany, women prefer to spend the majority of their time \u2013 nearly two hours \u2013 on \u201cintimate relations\u201d and only 36 minutes on work. Sebastian Pokutta, assistant professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, co-authored the study that breaks down a woman\u0027s \u0022perfect day\u0022 in minutes based on concepts of optimization to maximize happiness. He explains his findings and whether this \u201cperfect day\u201d could play out in the real world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIn today\u0027s world, one of the main objectives is to maximize economic output and professional performance. Well-being and happiness is most often considered to be an automatic consequence of economic welfare. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe aim of our study was to conduct a thought-experiment on what a happiness-optimized schedule might look like as compared to one that we are typically living in our day-to-day lives. We then compared the outcome of this thought experiment with the actual allocation of times to certain activities. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe study is not about telling people \u2018this is how you should spend your time\u2019. What we did was rather to look at respondents\u2019 own statements and the activities they perform in order to calculate what a perfect day would look like based on their responses.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EOne of our goals is to foster discussion about how to combine subjective well-being and happiness with the requirements of today\u0027s life. We also believe that it will be more important to actively manage well-being and happiness and do not relegate it to being a corollary of professional success.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0167487012001158\u0022\u003Epaper\u003C\/a\u003E, \u0022Just a perfect day? Developing a happiness optimised day,\u0022 was published in the October 16 edition of Journal of Economic Psychology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/amplifier.gatech.edu\/articles\/2012\/11\/womans-perfect-day-time-loved-one\u0022\u003Estory \u003C\/a\u003Ewas written by Liz Klipp and first appeared on November 28, 2012 in the Georgia Tech Amplifier.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE Assistant Professor Sebastian Pokutta recently co-authored a paper that breaks down a woman\u0027s \u0022perfect day\u0022 in minutes based on concepts of optimization to maximize happiness.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2012-11-29 15:49:13","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:18","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"139561":{"id":"139561","type":"image","title":"Sebastian Pokutta","body":null,"created":"1449178710","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:38:30","changed":"1475894771","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:11","alt":"Sebastian Pokutta","file":{"fid":"194901","name":"sebastian_1.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sebastian_1_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sebastian_1_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":33876,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/sebastian_1_0.png?itok=2fIpJyVc"}}},"media_ids":["139561"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"51841","name":"GT Amplifier"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"51851","name":"Liz Klipp"},{"id":"167832","name":"Sebastian Pokutta"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}