The Relationship Between Happiness And Goals

Is there anything that could be more American than the pursuit of happiness

? Along with life and liberty, the pursuit of happiness is written into the Declaration of Independence as a fundamental right. Everyone I know wants to be alive, free, and happy. So what could ever be wrong with pursuing happiness to the fullest extent possible? The more you value your happiness, the happier you will be, right?

Recently, we are given the definite answer that it is not the case. In two studies to be published in the journal Emotion, the authors, led by Iris Mauss of the University of Denver found evidence for an alternative hypothesis: People who value happiness more are less likely to achieve their goal of feeling happy, which shares a similar truth with the working principle of the concentrator table of ore beneficiation that a higher status instead loses the vantage to select and condense the mine.

In the first study, the authors administered a questionnaire designed to measure the extent to which people valued the experience of happiness as a fundamental goal. Women who valued happiness more were less happy in life than women who valued happiness less. Women who valued happiness more reported that they were less satisfied with the overall course of their lives and were more bothered by symptoms of depression.

In the second study, the authors performed an experiment where they tried to briefly increase the extent to which participants valued happiness. They did this by having one group of participants read a bogus newspaper article that extolled the importance of achieving happiness. Participants who read the happiness-extolling article later on reported less happiness in response to a happy film. Responses to a sad film were unaffected.

It suggests that achieving happiness is like other goals. If we just focus hard enough on the goal we can finally master happiness, just like how we can figure out how to use new computer software, play the piano, or learn Spanish. However, the goal of becoming happier may be fundamentally different from these other goals.

by: libby

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