KUER Local News
(2006-07-12)
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ANN ARBOR, MI
(Michigan Radio) -
Are you happy? Are you happier now than you were ten years ago? Do you think you'll more or less happy ten years from now? It turns out that most of us think that happiness decreases with age, but most of us are wrong. We know that thanks to research done by Heather Lacey, a Research Fellow at the Center of Behavior and Decision Sciences in Medicine in Ann Arbor. She did a survey of more than 500 people nationwide and found that most of them believed they would be less happy in the future and older respondents believed they were happier in the past. Those responses don't seem to match reality and Dr. Lacey is concerned that people might be making bad decisions about their health based on the assumption that they should enjoy themselves while they're young. She spoke with Charity Nebbe.
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