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…happiness is a subjective experience that is difficult to describe to ourselves and to others, thus evaluating people’s claims about their own happiness is an exceptionally thorny business.
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054 |
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…strange as it is, there are times when people seem not to know their own hearts.
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055 |
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The bottom line is this: The attentive person’s honest, real-time report is an imperfect approximation of her subjective experience, but it is the only game in town.
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070 |
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…when people are prevented from feeling an emotion in the present, they become temporarily unable to predict how they will feel in the future.
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121 |
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…one of the hallmarks of depression is that when depressed people think about future events, they cannot imagine liking them very much.
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124 |
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…the absence of grief is quite normal, and rather than being the fragile flowers… most people are surprisingly resilient in the face of trauma.
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152 |
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Studies suggest that people are quite adept at finding a positive way to view things once those things become their own.
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160 |
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…we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people who have already been preselected for their willingness to say what we want to hear.
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166 |
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…if we can’t find people who are doing more poorly than we are are, we may go out and create them.
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167 |
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…research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing.
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173 |
