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Why you shouldn't want to always be happy

  • Written by Frank T. McAndrew, Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College
imageIn life, happiness can seem fleeting and elusive, something just out of reach.Steve Corey/flickr, CC BY-ND

In the 1990s, a psychologist named Martin Seligman led the positive psychology movement, which placed the study of human happiness squarely at the center of psychology research and theory. It continued a trend that began in the 1960s with human...

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