Proof That You Can Get Over Anything

There's a school of psychology which holds that happiness is subjective. Good or bad things happen in life, but people return to the same base level of happiness. This theory, while up for debate in extreme cases, was established in regard to common life events by a 2008 article by Andrew E. Clark, Ed Diener, Yannis Georgellis, and Richard E. Lucas in The Economic Journal. Studying twenty years of survey data from Germany, researchers found evidence that people adapt completely to marriage, divo...