How Your Height Affects Your Happiness

Taller people are happier on average than shorter people, with each extra inch in height giving as much satisfaction as a four percent increase in income, according to a U.S. study.

Data from a Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index study found taller people were more satisfied with their lives, more likely to report positive emotions like enjoyment and happiness, and less likely to report emotions like anger, sadness, and stress.

"On average, men who gave their lives the worst possible rating were more than three-quarters of an inch shorter than the average man," the researchers said in a statement.

The Gallup data suggested it would take a 29 percent increase in income to have the same effect on men's life satisfaction as moving from below-average to above-average height.

"Alternatively, each additional inch of height has the same effect on reported life satisfaction as a four percent increase in family income," they calculated.

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[sonoffestus]

I am 6'3" . I have been watching my country being lead down the road to destruction by the Republican party , and you want me to smile? Yeah, right................. Vote for the TALL guy!

[Einstein44]

Read the following book..The Height of Your Life -Ralph Keyes

[Swerinjer]

That makes sense because most Repubiclans I've seen are short.

[lw1899]

McCain's about 4' 11". Obama's 6' 3". That's why Grampa is so angry and unhappy.

[larry278]

It is hard for short people to tell if taller people are happy since short people can't see the face of a taller person to see if the taller person is smiling. A smile indicates happiness better than mere surveys on a limited sample population.

[drumz]

Man, how short are you that you can't see someone's face?

[larry278]

I'm 5 feet tall & near sighted, drumz. Brillig, I'm not going to stop the smile bit. It's a defense & survival skill in a world which is far beyond absurd. As the old saw goes, "Smile, people will wonder what you're thinking.".

[Brillig]

Cut with the smile thing...in America the smile is so overused no one can interpret it any more. Americans smile widely when telling you they are letting you go...or that your last presentation sucked...or that your child wet his pants in school...and they also smile because they heard a joke...makes most of us originally from other cultures wonder if Americans are happy when they have to give bad news.........like McCain is up in the polls...