▼ Sadness and Sharing

▲ We Reach Out To Others When We Need Support ▼

Shankar Vedantam:

They found that happy people tended to be far more selfish than sad people. Happy people were much more likely to hog the raffle tickets, rather than share them with others, whereas sad people were far more likely to think about the feelings of others. The result meshes with a growing body of work that suggests that while happiness feels great for us individually, it seems to have less than salutory effects on the hidden brain when it comes to thinking about the perspectives and feelings of others.

[Much of my writing focuses on our three primary domains of drive and motivation - Achievement, Social Relationships, Knowledge - ASK. This quote is about Social Relationships.]