Improved living through science is possible. Over the years, researchers have been inquiring happy and unhappy people, and they’re finally concluding on the factors that make a difference.
Fortunes - Money can buy a degree of happiness. But once you can meet the expense of feeding, clothe and house yourself, each extra dollar makes less and a lesser amount of difference.
Whenever and When on earth they look, researchers find that, an average, richer people are happier. But the relationship between money and happiness is complex. In the past half-century, average income has increased in developed countries, yet happiness levels have remained static. Once your basic needs are met, money only seems to improve happiness if you have more than your friends, neighbors and colleagues.
“Money can buy status, and status makes people feel better This helps explain why people who can seek status in other ways
Need- A need is something that is necessary for organisms to live a healthy life Needs are distinguished from wants because a deficiency would cause a clear negative outcome, such as dysfunction or death. Needs can be objective and physical, such as food, or they can be subjective and psychological, such as the need for self-respect. On a societal level, needs are sometimes controversial. How much stuff do you need to feel good. Take a survey t to rate peoples happiness and ask them how close they were to having all they wanted you will find out that people whose aspirations not just for money but for friends, family, jobs, health soared high compared to their other counterpart.
This “aspiration gap” might explain why most people fail to get much happier as their salaries rise. Instead of satisfying our desires, most of us merely want more. In surveys by the Roper polling organization over the last two decades, Americans were asked to list the material possessions they thought important to “the good life.” The researchers found that the more of these goods people already had, the longer their list was. The good life remained always just out of reach.
Cleverness - Merely a few analysis have observed whether smart people are happier, but they indicate intelligence has no effect. That seems surprising at first, since brighter people often earn more, and the rich tend to be happier.
Some examiners speculate that brighter people could have higher expectations and thus be disappointed with anything less than the highest achievements. “Or maybe scoring high on an IQ test — which means you know a lot of vocabulary and can rotate things in your mind — doesn’t have a lot to do with your ability to get along well with people,” psychologists speculates that “social intelligence” could be the real key to happiness.
Inheritance
Are some people born happy or unhappy? David Lykken, a behavioral geneticist and professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, believes our feeling of well-being at any moment is determined half by what is going on in our lives at that time and half by a “set point” of happiness, which is up to 90 percent genetically determined and to which we eventually return after dramatic events. “While our happiness set point is largely determined by our genes,” says Lykken, “whether we bounce along above it or slump along under it depends on our — or our parents’ — good sense and good training.”
Lykken found that genetic variation accounted for between 44 and 55 percent of the difference in happiness levels. Neither income, marital status, religion nor education accounted for any more than about 3 percent.
But whether you trek through life on the low side of your set point or skip along on the high side is up to you. Many studies have shown that outgoing person tend to be happier than most people, and a lot happier than recluse or a shy . And research has found that putting people in a good mood makes them more jovial. Research have shown that people were more talkative and open with others after watching a happy film than after watching a sad one. Theoretically, even someone with a low set point can boost his or her outlook.
Fortunes - Money can buy a degree of happiness. But once you can meet the expense of feeding, clothe and house yourself, each extra dollar makes less and a lesser amount of difference.
Whenever and When on earth they look, researchers find that, an average, richer people are happier. But the relationship between money and happiness is complex. In the past half-century, average income has increased in developed countries, yet happiness levels have remained static. Once your basic needs are met, money only seems to improve happiness if you have more than your friends, neighbors and colleagues.
“Money can buy status, and status makes people feel better This helps explain why people who can seek status in other ways
Need- A need is something that is necessary for organisms to live a healthy life Needs are distinguished from wants because a deficiency would cause a clear negative outcome, such as dysfunction or death. Needs can be objective and physical, such as food, or they can be subjective and psychological, such as the need for self-respect. On a societal level, needs are sometimes controversial. How much stuff do you need to feel good. Take a survey t to rate peoples happiness and ask them how close they were to having all they wanted you will find out that people whose aspirations not just for money but for friends, family, jobs, health soared high compared to their other counterpart.
This “aspiration gap” might explain why most people fail to get much happier as their salaries rise. Instead of satisfying our desires, most of us merely want more. In surveys by the Roper polling organization over the last two decades, Americans were asked to list the material possessions they thought important to “the good life.” The researchers found that the more of these goods people already had, the longer their list was. The good life remained always just out of reach.
Cleverness - Merely a few analysis have observed whether smart people are happier, but they indicate intelligence has no effect. That seems surprising at first, since brighter people often earn more, and the rich tend to be happier.
Some examiners speculate that brighter people could have higher expectations and thus be disappointed with anything less than the highest achievements. “Or maybe scoring high on an IQ test — which means you know a lot of vocabulary and can rotate things in your mind — doesn’t have a lot to do with your ability to get along well with people,” psychologists speculates that “social intelligence” could be the real key to happiness.
Inheritance
Are some people born happy or unhappy? David Lykken, a behavioral geneticist and professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, believes our feeling of well-being at any moment is determined half by what is going on in our lives at that time and half by a “set point” of happiness, which is up to 90 percent genetically determined and to which we eventually return after dramatic events. “While our happiness set point is largely determined by our genes,” says Lykken, “whether we bounce along above it or slump along under it depends on our — or our parents’ — good sense and good training.”
Lykken found that genetic variation accounted for between 44 and 55 percent of the difference in happiness levels. Neither income, marital status, religion nor education accounted for any more than about 3 percent.
But whether you trek through life on the low side of your set point or skip along on the high side is up to you. Many studies have shown that outgoing person tend to be happier than most people, and a lot happier than recluse or a shy . And research has found that putting people in a good mood makes them more jovial. Research have shown that people were more talkative and open with others after watching a happy film than after watching a sad one. Theoretically, even someone with a low set point can boost his or her outlook.
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