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One difficulty that people face when trying to improve their well-being is that they may not always know what will make them happy. As one example, many of us think that if we just had more money, we would be happier.
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While it is true that we do need money to afford food and adequate shelter for ourselves and our families, after this minimum level of wealth is reached, more money does not generally buy more happiness Easterlin, For instance, as you can see in Figure 3. Despite tremendous economic growth in France, Japan, and the United States between andthere was no increase in reports of well-being by the citizens of these countries.
Americans today have several times the buying power they had in the s, and yet overall happiness has not increased. Figure 3.
Source: Layard, R. Happiness: Lessons from a new science. New York, NY: Penguin. For one, people overestimate their emotional reactions to events. Although people think that positive and negative events that Childrdn might experience will make a huge difference in their lives, and although these changes do make at least some difference in well-being, they tend to be less influential than we think they are going to be.
Positive events tend to make us feel good, but their effects wear off pretty quickly, and the same is true for negative events.
What Doesn’t Work: Distorting and Suppressing Negative Outcomes
On the other hand, the researchers found that individuals who were paralyzed as a result of accidents were not as Nebative as might be expected. How can this possibly be? There are several reasons. For one, people are resilient; they bring their coping skills into play when negative events occur, and this makes them feel better.
A Better Approach: Self-Regulation
Second, most people do not continually experience very positive or very negative affect over a long period of time but, rather, adapt to their current circumstances. Another reason we may predict our happiness incorrectly is that our social Chilfren change when our own status changes as a result of new events. People who are wealthy compare themselves to other wealthy people, people who are poor tend to compare themselves with other poor people, and people who are ill tend to compare themselves with other ill people.]
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