
Meet Harvard's Professor Of "Happiness" | Dr. Robert Waldinger
The Checkup with Doctor Mike
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The Importance of Making Connections
The book is based on a statistical interaction between marital satisfaction and daily pain perception in older adults. People who were in more pain each day had lower moods, but if they were in better marriages, their moods didn't go down on days when they had more pain. "We're trying to bring evidence into our discussion of what you might do about this in your own life," she says.
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