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Review finds happiness may breed success

By Greg Kline
Thursday, January 19, 2006 2:00 PM CDT

If you think getting that promotion at work, an A on your algebra test or a 290 game at the bowling alley will make you happy, you may be looking at it from the wrong perspective.

Personal and professional success may affect happiness, but the effect appears to work the other way as well, with happy people more likely to achieve favorable life circumstances, say a University of Illinois psychology professor and his colleagues.

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