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.It's plain common sense—the more happiness you feel, the less unhappiness you experience. It's plain
1 , but it's not true. Recent research reveals that
2 are not really flip sides of the same emotion. They are two
3 that, coexisting, rise and fall independently.
"You'd think that the higher a person's level of unhappiness,
4 their level of happiness and vice versa," says Edward Diener, a university of Illinois
5 who has done much of the new work on
6 . But when Diener and other researchers measure people's average levels of happiness and unhappiness, they often find
7 between the two.
The recognition that feelings of happiness and unhappiness can
8 much like love and hate in a close relationship may offer valuable clues on how to
9 . It suggests, for example, that changing or avoiding things that
10 may well make you less miserable but probably won't make you any happier. That advice
11 by an extraordinary series of studies which indicate that a genetic predisposition for unhappiness may
12 . On the other hand, researchers have found, happiness doesn't appear to be
13 . The capacity for joy is a talent you develop largely for yourself.
Psychologists have
14 a working definition of the feeling—happiness is a sense of
15 . They've also begun to find out who's happy, who isn't, and why. To date, the research hasn't found
16 for a happy life, but it has discovered some of the
17 that seem to bring people closer to that most desired of feelings.
In a number of studies of fraternal and
18 , researchers have examined the role
19 plays in happiness and unhappiness. The work suggests that although no one is really born to be happy,
20 may run in families.