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What Makes Us Happy?

by Pat Coate | May 15, 2009
"To be able to study lives in such depth, over so many decades, was like looking through the Mount Palomar telescope."
- Dr. George Vaillant, researcher

Is there a formula -- some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation -- for a good life?

Here, for the first time, a journalist gains access to the archive of one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies in history.

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