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Careers, education & training Happiness campaigns could make us
sadder Campaigns to increase the level of happiness in Society
could have the ironic effect, of making sad people feel sadder,
suggests new research reported on our Research Digest. A survey
of hundreds of Australian and Japanese students found that those
who believed more strongly that society expects us to try to be
happy, also tended to evaluate their own negative emotions more
negatively. In other words, believing that there's a cultural
expectation to strive for happiness is associated with feeling
sad about being sad. - Most Read - Most Comments - Register of
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