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A growing body of research suggests that seeking happiness, rather than resulting in yet more happiness, often leads to negative consequences, like less happiness and less available time. Adding to this happiness paradox, the current research examines whether seeking happiness leads to the impairment of self\u2010regulation due to the depletion of regulatory resources. We first demonstrate that trait\u2010level happiness\u2010seeking is associated with worse self\u2010regulation both via self\u2010report (Study 1) and actual behavior (Study 2). This result is corroborated in subsequent experiments that manipulate the pursuit of happiness and find that it, versus a control condition, makes people more vulnerable to lapses in self\u2010control behavior (Study 3) and, versus an accuracy\u2010seeking condition, makes people persist less in a challenging task (Study 4). 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