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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. It's interesting as to when you

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Speaker 1: put up the tree. Some people get in trouble from

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Speaker 1: others for going too early. People like to think there

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Speaker 1: might be some rules in place, particularly in North America

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Speaker 1: where they have Halloween, big deal. Yep, Thanksgiving, big.

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Speaker 2: Deal Thanksgiving, that's this weekend.

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Speaker 1: I think it's this weekend, and so you're not supposed

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Speaker 1: to put up your Christmas tree till then. Some people

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Speaker 1: have gone early, and psychologists science are saying, actually, that's okay.

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Speaker 1: A British website has said that people who decorate earlier

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Speaker 1: are simply tapping into the excitement of the holidays and

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Speaker 1: it makes them happier. They are saying that it's true.

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Speaker 1: Decorating can lift your mood and create the neurological shift

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Speaker 1: that can produce happiness. Anything that takes us out of

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Speaker 1: our normal habituation, the normal day in, day out signals

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Speaker 1: our senses, and then our senses measure if it's pleasing

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Speaker 1: or not. So Christmas decorating will spike dopamine, the feel

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Speaker 1: good hormone. Just Hinda, who works with us, said that

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Speaker 1: they put their Christmas tree up on the weekend. She

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Speaker 1: was going, oh, can we be bothered, she said, with

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Speaker 1: such a joyous event. She's got a four year old

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Speaker 1: to put this up. It lifted everybody's mood. Everyone walks

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Speaker 1: into the house and goes, oh, isn't that lovely? Sure

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Speaker 1: so it's made everyone happy. They're saying. Also the bright

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Speaker 1: lights and colors. It's a thing called chromotherapy or color therapy.

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Speaker 1: It increases your energy levels and boost happiness. Maybe it's

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Speaker 1: also ambience in general, they're saying. The new scientific there's

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Speaker 1: a scientific field devoted to understanding how our designed environments

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Speaker 1: can affect our behavior. This is called neuro architecture, so

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Speaker 1: how our brains respond to our physical environments. And of

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Speaker 1: course the nostalgia feeling as well. It makes people feel happy. Sure,

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Speaker 1: so the research is saying it's okay, put up your

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Speaker 1: Christmas decorations early. They're saying, here also, neighbors might think

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Speaker 1: you're friendlier. Research has shown that people interpret Christmas decorations

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Speaker 1: on a home as a cue that the people inside

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Speaker 1: are sociable.

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Speaker 2: That is true. That is true. Just be careful with

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Speaker 2: your ladder. You don't do a Molly Mildron. Remember that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and be careful with putting the stuff up. That

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Speaker 1: is true. But if you're going to go early quote science,

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Speaker 1: it's quite all right. It's lifting your mood.

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Speaker 2: What about my brother who had a Christmas tree out

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Speaker 2: for two years and it was providing light because he

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Speaker 2: couldn't change his down lights in his laund room. Was

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Speaker 2: he happy?

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Speaker 1: Brendan me