From: LiveScience
What Makes You Happy? It May Depend on Your Age
August 3, 2011
LiveScience:
People’s happiness levels change with age, an idea reflected in personal experiences and public opinion polls, but a new study shows that much of that change may boil down to how people define happiness itself.
Whereas happiness in younger people is often related to excitement, for older people, contentment was associated with a happy existence, the researchers found.
The study indicates there are at least two different kinds of happiness, “one associated with peacefulness and one associated with being excited,” study researcher Cassie Mogilner, a professor of marketing at Wharton, told LiveScience.
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