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A new study published recently in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science suggests that if we feel super-duper happy, we are likely not as well off as those who feel only moderately happy. The study found that those who scored their happiness as a 10 (on a 1 to 10 scale) earned less money. The uber-happy students in the study received lower grades. The researcher’s conclusion? In short, if you’re “too happy” you get lazy, you don’t work as hard, you’re not as motivated to find new ways of doing or approaching whatever that lead you to being happier. “…we need negative emotions,” is how one of the study’s authors put it. Now, no one wants to be too low on the happiness scale, but if you really think you’re perfectly happy, you may want to reconsider. For you own good, that is.