Blue Monday

(Newser) - There's a reason "Blue Monday" is trending on social media: For the uninitiated, it refers to the third Monday in January—that would be today—which has been christened the gloomiest day of the year. Back in 2005, a UK psychologist named Cliff Arnall of Cardiff University came...

(Newser) - Back in 2005, a psychologist named Dr. Cliff Arnall dubbed the third Monday in January "Blue Monday" and declared that he had determined it to be the most miserable day of the year. Since then, companies have found ways to hawk their products to this supposedly dismal day, while...