"Happiness" (I thought so...)

"Lyn Abramson, of the University of Wisconsin, and Lauren Alloy, of
Temple University, have uncovered a number of 'cognitive illusions' to
which normal, healthy people are subject.  Emotional health, they
suggest, involves mildly overoptimistic presumptions and a
corresponding insensitivity to failure, which result in a propensity
to make straightforwardly false judgements.  Perversely, the
clinically depressed are often free of these cognitive illusions--they
are, to use the subtitle of one of Abramson and Alloy's best known
papers, 'Sadder But Wiser'."


	-- "The Nitrous Oxide Philosopher" by Dimitri Tymoczko
	   The Atlantic Monthly, May 1996