from Psychologists, the New Priesthood:
It is not science; how can it be science when Freud, Jung, Adler, Assagioli, are not agreeing on a single point? The four great psychologists—and not agreeing on a single point! Science always comes to an agreement. When the truth is known about anything, the scientist is humble enough to drop his prejudices and accept it. It does not matter who has discovered it, what matters is that it has been discovered.

Here's a quick reference guide to what psychologists determine as the "secret to happiness". Click below to read my short summary.

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rTMS: Yale Psychiatry

Google Answers: lottery winners

"The researchers studied both lottery winners and individuals that sustained a physical injury, to determine if winning the lottery made
them happier or if sustaining an injury made them less happy. What they found was that immediately after either event, levels of
happiness were higher (lottery winners), or lower (physically injured), and that after eight weeks or less, people returned to the level of happiness they had before the event. This research suggests that we adapt to these situations very quickly, and often return to the degree of happiness we had before such an event."

"American Scientist reports a study by Dr. Robert Levine, CalState Psychologist, about the kindness of strangers. He and his graduate students conducted the most comprehensive test ever of the helpfulness of people in various cities worldwide. Their results: New York ranks dead last in the USA, and second-to-last worldwide, outdone only by Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ranked the highest, followed by San Jose (Costa Rica, not California), Lilongwe (Malawi), Calcutta, and Vienna," jasonm1 writes. "Levine's rankings were based on the following three rates of assistance: picking up a dropped pen, helping the injured, and helping the blind cross the street. The experimenters were all graduate students, who faked the conditions (or dropped the pens). Additional experiments were conducted in the US, which studied the chances that a stamped, addressed, sealed letter would be mailed if found and whether or not strangers are willing to make change.

from Plastic