Love you! Just saying . . . It was an innocuous text, the kind of message a partner taps out to the love of their life once in awhile.

A new study on how text messages can help boost a person’s happiness. Although in the context of this study, the text messages were part of a study around depression and it was discovered that routine texting can help patients with depression feel more loved and connected. Adrian Aguilera, lead author and an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, shares more about the power of text. Q and A.

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