Matthew Hutson's Beyond Happiness

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There is nothing wrong with having emotions, they are normal. We as humans encounter ourselves with tons of emotions during our lifespan. Each emotion we have has a specific duty. Majority of us have the wrong ideas about emotions. Believe it or not, emotions are instruments of survival (47). In the Article “Beyond Happiness”, by Matthew Hutson, it indicates how beneath the surface of happiness, the different types of emotions that we deal with on the daily basis controls how happy an individual truly is.
Maya Tamir, a psychologist at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem observes that “Any emotion, when it’s really intense, takes over,” (47). We as humans work ourselves up off of emotions and once it has reached its high point, we react off

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