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mebil  ·  4129 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Is Happiness?

It is interesting that the wealth-happiness correlation is flat after a certain income level for the experiencing self but not for the remembering self. What came to my mind is the negativity bias since it predicts the opposite result. I am not sure but according to the negativity bias one would expect that the experience of not feeling happy would be emphasised by the remembering self. At first these two seem to contradict but it could also mean that "not feeling happy" is not necessarily same with "feeling unhappy".