Predicting future happiness made easy

You need only take a serious look at your own personality. A recent study has shown that the actual events that bring us happiness in our life have less to do with what actually happens and more to do with our own personality and that most people do not consider their own general personality when predicting their future happiness.

In a study published in the January 2011 issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association of Psychological Science, researchers asked participants to predict how they would feel in the future. In October 2008, the researchers asked the participants how they would feel the day after the American elections if Barack Obama won.  The bulk of the participants were Obama supporters. The participants' personalities had no effect on their own predictions about their future happiness. Both people with a happier personality and those with a grumpier disposition predicted that they would be happy the day after the elections if Obama won.