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Happiness in poorer countries does not follow the typical U-shaped curve − people are often happiest in middle age

  • Written by Michael Gurven, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
imageScholars have long assumed happiness was like a U-shaped curve − which looks a bit like a smile. Richard Baker/In Pictures via Getty Images

Happiness over one’s lifetime has been popularly described as looking like a U-shaped curve: The joys of youth are followed by the challenges of our 20s and 30s before an upswing later in life that...

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