happy and satisfiied with life according to a statistical digest of 146 studies by Marilyn J. Harang, William Stock and Moms A. Okun, all then at Arizona State University. Wealth is also a poor predictor of happiness. People have not become happier over time as their cultures have become more affluent. Even though Americans eam twice as much in today's doitars as they did in 1957, the proportion of those telling surveyors from the National Opinion Research Center that they are very happy has declined from 35 to 29 percent. Even very rich people those surveyed among Forbes magazine's 100 wealthiest Americans are only slightly happier than the average American. Those whose income has increased over a 10-year period are not happier than those whose income is stagnant. Indeed, in most nations the correlation between income and happiness is negligible only in the poorest countries, such as Bangladesh and India, is income a good measure of emotional well being.