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	<title>Comments on: Happiness Research News Digest for March 13, 2010</title>
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	<description>Where the science of happiness meets ancient wisdom</description>
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		<title>By: ravi</title>
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		<description>The Hartford Courant piece is worth reading, based on Justin Wolfers &amp; Betsy Stevenson&#039;s paper detailing that men are happier than women on average. I thought this was interesting.

&quot;Larry, why does it surprise you that researchers looking into the emotional lives of human beings are female? Most men aren&#039;t interested in emotional lives. &quot;

In many surveys, men are more concerned with productivity/agentic/competence related goals and women are concerned with relational/well-being/social/communal goals. It&#039;s interesting that this knowledge is implicit in most people. Perhaps social psychology is a bit of the study of the obvious...:)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Hartford Courant piece is worth reading, based on Justin Wolfers &#038; Betsy Stevenson&#8217;s paper detailing that men are happier than women on average. I thought this was interesting.</p>
<p>&#8220;Larry, why does it surprise you that researchers looking into the emotional lives of human beings are female? Most men aren&#8217;t interested in emotional lives. &#8221;</p>
<p>In many surveys, men are more concerned with productivity/agentic/competence related goals and women are concerned with relational/well-being/social/communal goals. It&#8217;s interesting that this knowledge is implicit in most people. Perhaps social psychology is a bit of the study of the obvious&#8230;:)</p>
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