By Eric Jaffe — 2007
What will make you happy? A social scientist explains why it’s so hard to predict
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People who are happy but have little-to-no sense of meaning in their lives have the same gene expression patterns as people who are enduring chronic adversity.
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For most of my life, I clung to the belief that I wasn’t happy because I “just wasn’t wired that way.”