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What might explain the unhappiness epidemic?

  • Written by Jean Twenge, Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
Although measures of teen and adult happiness dropped during the high unemployment rates of the Great Recession, it didn’t rebound when the economy started to improve.ASDF_MEDIA/Shutterstock.com

We’d all like to be a little happier.

The problem is that much of what determines happiness is outside of our control. Some of us are...

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