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Happiness and unhappiness have no direct effect on mortality, research suggests

December 10, 2015 by

Happiness itself has no direct effect on mortality, a study of a million UK women has shown. Further, the widespread but mistaken belief that unhappiness and stress directly cause ill health came from studies that had simply confused cause and effect, say researchers.

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