🚨 New paper alert! 🎉🎉🎉
The largest meta-analysis to date on physical activity & mood in daily life is out in Nature Human Behaviour. An amazing effort led by Johanna Rehder & Markus Reichert et al. (2026)!
Joshua Curtiss
An individual participant data meta-analysis of how physical activity relates to affective well-being in daily life
Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 06 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02427-2In this individual participant data meta-analysis, and across 321,345 smartphone-ratings of affective well-being and nearly 1 million hours of physical activity measurement, Rehder et al. clarify the nature and extent of activity–well-being relations and document their relevance in humans’ everyday life.
