National pride brings happiness -- but what you're proud of matters
(Medical Xpress) -- Research shows that feeling good about your country also makes you feel good about your own life and many people take that as good news. But Matthew Wright, a political scientist at American University, and Tim Reeskens, a sociologist from Catholic University in Belgium, suspected that the positive findings about nationalism weren't telling the whole story. "It's fine to say pride in your country makes you happy," says Wright. "But what kind of pride are we talking about? That turns out to make a lot of difference. The intriguing and politically suggestive differences they found appear in a commentary in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science.
