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Does avoiding misery make you happy?
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- Sep 27, 2026, 6:00 PM UTC
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In an excerpt from “The Opposite of Happiness: How Bad Feelings Make and Break Us,” Carnegie Mellon professor George Loewenstein turns his attention to one of the most devastating, and enduring, forms of misery: rejection.