Everyone should listen to Radiolab. Their website is here.
Today I was listening to their episode “Deception”.
It turns out that people who can effectively lie to themselves are happier. Those who see the reality of life, in all its cruelty and tragedy, are bound to be depressed. Just great.
We can also tell who those happy people are, thanks to the science of microexpressions (among other things). Paul Eckman is one of the premier researchers in this field:



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