What Makes People Happy?


Happiness is something we like to believe we know and know well, but in practice it can become quite a difficult and elusive thing to obtain. Recently, positive psychologists and other researchers have begun to ask the question, “What is it that makes an individual truly happy?” These researchers hope to explain not just what makes a person happy in a single moment, but how habits of good living can create a life of fulfillment and satisfaction. Television documentaries like 20/20’s “Happiness,” and ABC’s “Mysteries of Happiness” went on a search to answer this golden question.