or that describe three kinds of happiness: pleasure, engagement, and meaning.
proximity to other happy people
living a good life, or flourishing, rather than simply as an emotion.
Happiness economics suggests that measures of public happiness should be used to supplement more traditional economic measures when evaluating the success of public policy.
50% of one's happiness depends on one's genes, based on studying identical twins, whose happiness is 50% correlated even when growing up in different houses.[5] About 10% to 15% is a result of various measurable life circumstances variables, such as socioeconomic status, marital status, health, income, sex[6] and others. The remaining 40% is a combination of unknown factors and the results of actions that individuals deliberately engage in to become happier.
Oxford Happiness Questionnaire[7] as a broad measure of psychological well-being.
sense of purpose, social interest and kindness, sense of humor and aesthetic appreciation.[8]
happiness in social networks may spread from person to person. Researchers followed nearly 5000 individuals for 20 years in the long-standing Framingham Heart Study and found clusters of happiness and unhappiness that spread up to 3 degrees of separation on average.
Envy is believed to produce unhappiness.
the majority of well-conducted studies found that higher levels of religious involvement are positively associated with indicators of psychological well-being
Nirvana
felicity (Latin equivalent to the Greek eudaimonia), or "blessed happiness", described by the thirteenth-century philosopher-theologian Thomas Aquinas as a Beatific Vision of God's essence in the next life.
the only thing that humans desire for its own sake, unlike riches, honor, health or friendship.
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