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Re:Can Happiness Make You Healthier? by mtw on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @02:45PM (#12799236)
A better word than "happiness" should be satisfaction. Happiness can be for me instant joy or a good cup of hot chocolate. Satisfaction is more long-term and being satisfied with what you what, instead of joining the rat race.

And satisfaction is obviously linked to health outcomes.

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Re:Can Happiness Make You Healthier? by lucidz on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @02:59PM (#12799384)
Sometimes definitely wonder how many people read the article.

the article actually starts: IN THE QUEST to study human happiness, including its causes and effects, even agreeing on a definition is a formidable undertaking. Joy, euphoria, contentment, satisfaction—each of these, at times, has been used as a proxy or emphasized in research studies.

So i mean, they basically get that idea out of the way in the first paragraph.

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Re:Can Happiness Make You Healthier? by collyw on Thursday October 27, 2016 @05:15AM (#12803768)
In some interviews with the Dali Lama he has worded this difference as "short term pleasure versus long term happiness".
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