Can Happiness Make Us Healthier? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Society of Clinical Psychology
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
Being healthy is good for happiness, but does happiness also lead to better health? Correlational research shows that people with more positive emotional styles are three times less likely to develop symptoms of a cold or flu after deliberately being exposed to the rhino or influenza virus (Cohen, Alper, Doyle, Treanor, & Turner, 2006). And in a famous longitudinal study, nuns who expressed the most positive emotions in essays in their 20s lived about 10 years longer than nuns expressing the
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