Page | 46 isolated, disconnected, and like one ensues from happiness is also apparent doesn’t belong. in the effects of happiness on income. In terms of emotional health, the Happiness predicted increases in prospect for lonely people is increasing household income over a 2-year period misery, at least over the short term. in middle-aged adults. However, Loneliness and depressed affect tend to relationship satisfaction also predicted be thought of as synonymous, but the increases in household income over this two are conceptually and empirically time period and, remarkably, distinct. If loneliness and depression relationship satisfaction helped to were synonymous, increases in explain the effect of happiness on loneliness would have no capacity to income. It seems that happy people predict increases in depressive experience increases in income in part symptoms because increases in one because of the general good will that would be exactly paralleled by increases surrounds the socially contented in the other. Instead, longitudinal data individual and that elicits tangible and have shown that loneliness predicts an intangible positivity from others. increase in depressive symptoms but It is perhaps precisely because depressive symptoms do not predict an most people feel socially connected and increase in loneliness over a one-year happy that we take for granted the interval.'* Importantly, the influence of invisible force of social connectedness loneliness on depressive symptoms was and its stabilizing and nurturing not attributable to fewer social influence in all aspects of life. Only in connections, general negativity, stress, its absence do we begin to comprehend or poor social support. These data its power. Western notions of the suggest that the relevant intervention autonomous individual notwithstanding, target is loneliness, and that modifying human beings are “wired” for social the cognitions, perceptions, and connections and need social bonds to expectation