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This is what is most responsible for your happiness

Eric Barker
April 7, 2012

It’s the little things.

Very happy people don’t experience more happy events than less happy people. It’s more about perspective and how depression-prone you are — and getting enough sleep helps too.

Via 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior:

Ed Diener and Martin Seligman screened over 200 undergraduates for levels of happiness, and compared the upper 10% (the âextremely happyâ) with the middle and bottom 10%. Extremely happy students experienced no greater number of objectively positive life events, like doing well on exams or hot dates, than did the other two groups (Diener & Seligman, 2002). Second, Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues tracked the moods and activities of 909 employed women by asking them to record in detail their previous dayâs experiences (Kahneman, Krueger, Schkade, Schwarz, & Stone, 2004). They found that most major life circumstances, including womenâs household income and various features of their jobs (such as whether these jobs included excellent benefits), were correlated only minimally with their moment-by-moment happiness. In contrast, womenâs sleep quality and proneness toward depression were good predictors of their happiness.

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Title This is what is most responsible for your happiness
Author Eric Barker
Date April 7, 2012 5:12 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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