Happiness more than gene deep › News in Science (ABC Science) →
This study claims that your happiness ‘set-point’, influenced by genetics, only accounts for about 50% of your happiness. The news article reads as though this is new information, although I’d read about it quite some time ago.
Is it worrying that the study appears to have a focus on economics? If you subscribe to the idea that buying things can make you happy, maybe. If you think that buying stuff is a reflection of a failed attempt to be happy, maybe it’s good that economists are actually looking into the situation. It might challenge some of their preconceived ideas!
