In the CIHM blog, writer Marianne Spoon notes that the study is the first of its kind to blend laboratory and real-world settings into one experiment on savoring and how we’re affected by our emotions. Over the course of the study, 100 participants played guessing games while scientists collected functional MRI scans of their brains. From Spoon’s CIHM blog: Through brain imaging, researchers could observe reward learning and how much positive emotoin increased following reward: To learn more about the study’s design, read “Keeping up that positive feeling: the science of savoring emotions.”