The Importance of Positive Affect

"There is this low lying misery, maybe isn't the right word, but it's a source of unease in life that I can't shake," he says. "I know people who are especially high in positive affect who seem never to think about that." He adds: "If you're at all self-aware, or if you're Jewish, you do notice that even in the midst of everything good happening, that life is fragile"

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