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Get politically active, get happy
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
May 19, 2010
Activism fulfills human needs on several levels. According to the study, which was published in the journal Political Psychology, it satisfies one’s eudaimonic needs – the need for a sense of meaning and purpose to life. More superficially, it fulfills the hedonic need to feel pleasure. Prof. Kasser says activism “does a fairly good job” at satisfying the four psychological needs that must be met for a person to be happy: autonomy, competence, security and connection to others.
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