Your Textbook Describes the Research by Diener and Seligman Exploring

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Essay

Your textbook describes the research by Diener and Seligman exploring factors related to happiness. They found that happier students spent more time socializing with people and had more satisfying relationships compared to unhappy undergraduates. They did not find a relationship between levels of happiness and amount of money individuals had. Explain how this is a correlational study. Using this study, also explain why cause and effect cannot be determined from correlational designs due to: 1) the bidirectionality problem, and 2) the third variable problem.

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