I dug around to find the study you're referring to (after a now-deleted comment asked about it). Is it this one?

https://hurlburt.faculty.unlv.edu/heavey-hurlburt-2008.pdf

If so, the interpretation you describe seems pretty far off base.

Also, my impression is that that meme was not sparked by a psychological study, but that a few people did draw on this study to justify it.