In other words, we are significantly less happy with our choices when we can back out of them.
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Some will be less happy with his treatment of Christianity's early years, when basic doctrines were being hammered out.
And nobody seems to think that getting richer makes most people less happy.
"In general, the report shows that the richer you are, the less happy you are, " the report authors said.
In fact, in some cases, too much focus on feeling happy can actually lead to feeling less happy, researchers say.
It was a less happy afternoon for Moody's back-row colleague Martin Corry, despite finishing on the winning side this week in Cardiff.
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Coastal areas were more chipper than landlocked areas, and the cities with a higher density of tweets tended to be less happy.
Directors will be less happy to sanction a takeover or restructuring knowing that they could suffer personal liability for honest business decisions.
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If anything, the balance tips the other way: parents are less happy.
Less happy are those whose homes are pictured with the bins out, or before there was a chance to re-paint the peeling garage door.
This is especially true for women, who, according to a new Swedish study, tend to feel less happy and content with their lives after prolonged Facebook usage.
Why does keeping our options open make us less happy?
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As you rise up the corporate ladder you get more money but also more stress and more complications that can make you less happy on the job, right?
"This suggests that cities with high technology adoption rates (as most geotagged tweets come from devices like smartphones) are in fact less happy than their less technological counterparts, " says the study.
The happiness paradox states that the more we strive to attain happiness, the less happy we become, and the more we focus on something bigger than ourselves, the happier we get.
Until very recently I was more or less happy with this, at the moment I am heavily rethinking this (and have feelings I did not previously have) and contemplating different situations.
And some additional, much less happy news from Australia, as Unesco and environmentalists warn that climate change and large-scale coal mining may lead to the wholesale destruction of the Great Barrier Reef.
Often the more open partners are with each other, the less happy they are, says Marianne Dainton, a professor at La Salle University, in Philadelphia, whose research focuses on communication in personal relationships.
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Firms like Bertelsmann , which was happy to enter the U.S. media market by acquiring Random House , apparently are less happy at the prospect of facing aggressive, U.S.-style competition on their home turf.
More people became owners for the first time, but the less happy consequence was that millions of people began to borrow heavily against their houses, leading to a bust shortly after she left office.
But even in the euro area, which seems to have least to fear, the outcome would be less happy if central bankers make mistakes and fail to ease policy until it is too late.
Eighth seed Fish was less happy to play in the scorching afternoon heat, complaining about the timeouts that Colombian opponent Alejandro Falla took for treating cramps before sealing a 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 7-6 (8-6) victory.
People living in built-up or former industrial areas, such as south Wales, the West Midlands and London, also tended to be less happy, while rural areas, such as Rutland, Orkney and Shetland, were among the happiest.
Privately, bankers in the City, who complained endlessly about the old regulatory structure, are less than happy about Mr Davies's creation.
But other cellar treatments have less predictably happy results--fining and filtering, for example, which can strip away a wine's flavor at the last minute.
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