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We all know the "type" - very happy people. They just seem to have life by the tail. Can we learn from them? Are there similar characteristics that very happy people seem to share? What do they possess that the rest of us do not?

Several years ago, two researchers sought answers to those questions by conducting a study of 222 undergraduate college students. Using a variety of screening techniques, Ed Diener and Martin E.P. Seligman isolated 10% of the students who appeared to have the highest scores in terms of happiness.

What did they discover?

The very happy group spent the least time alone and the most time socializing, and was rated highest on good relationships by themselves and by informants. The very happy group was also more extroverted, had lower neuroticism scores, and had higher agreeableness scores compared to unhappy or students with average happiness scores.

Two other important findings from the study - very happy people never reported their mood as being "ecstatic" (although they frequently reported their mood as a 7 or 8 and a 9 on a scale of 10). They also weren't always happy. All members of the very happy group at least occasionally reported unhappiness or neutral moods, according to Diener and Seligman.

What's not known is whether rich, social relationships caused happiness or if happiness caused rich, social relationships or if both were caused by some third variable. What is known - very happy people have some component of social relationships as part of their happiness "mix" and the link appears pretty strong.

Gene Pinder is the assistant director of an executive master's program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also the author of The Psychology of Satisfaction and Happiness, a blog focusing on the current science and research of well-being. A journalist and marketer by training, Gene is also an artist of original oils and acrylic paintings.