From: MSNBC
Misery may really love company, study suggests
April 26, 2011
MSNBC:
Does misery really love company?
An intriguing new study suggests that may be the case.
Researchers who study how people’s sense of well-being varies from place to place decided to compare their findings with suicide rates.
The surprising result: The happiest places sometimes also have the highest suicide rates.
“Discontented people in a happy place may feel particularly harshly treated by life,” suggested Andrew Oswald of the University of Warwick in England.
Or, put another way by co-author Stephen Wu of Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., those surrounded by unhappy people may not feel so bad for themselves.
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