Conversation: Keep it heavy. Duncan Harris/Flickr CC

The next time someone wants to talk sports around the water cooler, tell them, “sorry, bud, but you’re bringing me down.”

Turns out, according to a University of Arizona study, deep conversations leave us feeling better.

Here’s a bit of the Telegraph’s coverage:

Volunteers wore an unobtrusive recording device to monitor conversations with friends and colleagues for four days.

Researchers then listened to the recordings and identified them as trivial small talk or substantive discussions.

via Idle chit chat can make you unhappy – Telegraph.