This finding is in line with the controversy about the use of the psychotropic drugs labelled as happiness pills or "happy pills" during the last half 60 years.
But as happiness is a state of mind, training your mind to be happy is essential.
Specifically, Polgreen and Simpson (2011) used the World Values Survey to discover a U-shaped relationship between emigration rates and happiness: emigration decreases as happiness increases in relatively unhappy countries, but rises as happiness increases in relatively happy countries.
That could be read as happiness, right?
Does that count as happiness?
"Aristotle talked about eudaimonia which loosely translates as happiness.
But Aristotle's term, eudaimonia, usually rendered in English as "happiness," actually translates better as "flourishing".
Does it lead to contentment and is contentment what we think of as happiness?
At such moments, he came "closest to what is commonly known as happiness".
Sadness was transmitted the same way, but not as reliably as happiness.
2) A number of people questioned whether it's really possible to measure something as seemingly soft and fuzzy as happiness.
