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Why happy people sometimes feel the urge to jump

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Standing near the edge of a cliff, many perfectly happy people suddenly experience a fleeting, terrifying thought of jumping off. French psychologists call this 'the call of the void', or the high place phenomenon. Far from being a dangerous impulse, researchers believe it is actually an overactive survival signal, acting as a bizarre misinterpretation of the brain warning you to step back.

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