Theists are generally happier
Catherine Sanderson, a psychology professor at Amherst College, recently gave a talk, ?Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness,? in which she described things that we think will make us happy but don?t and things that really do. It turns out that a private plane would not make me happier. (I?m still not convinced.) It also turns out that people who have religious or spiritual beliefs are happier than those who don?t, no matter what their beliefs.
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