Sad news about Happiness !

Jo Forgas and Hui Bing Tan at the University of New South Wales, experimenting on 45 volunteers Australia has found that happiness seems to make people more selfish !  (Journal of Experimental Psychology DOI:10.16/j.jesp.2010.01.007) .  Forgas has found in addition that happy people are less persuasive, more influenced by stereotypes, more gullible and have worse memories than those of unhappier personality.  All rather sad....