Our perception of human nature has equally important implications and profound effects on the individual level as well. Ultimately our goal is to find happiness in our troubled world. And there is compelling evidence showing that how we perceive the world around us can affect our happiness. An extensive study of more than eleven thousand Americans conducted by professor of sociology Abbott Ferris at Emory University confirmed what we might intuitively guess: The perception of our world, and by extension human nature, as either good or evil can directly affect our levels of happiness. Ferris
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