"less happiness" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a lower or decreased level of happiness. Example: Despite her recent success, the actress felt a sense of less happiness, as she missed spending time with her family.
Paralleling our assessment points for concreteness of identification, change in sadness indexed the extent to which participants reported greater sadness after the sad mood induction than after the happy mood induction, and change in happiness indexed the extent to which participants reported less happiness after the sad mood induction than after the happy mood induction.
Perhaps a little less happiness is a small price to pay for a little more honesty.
My main objection to the "more kids, less happiness" conclusion is "There is a path to happier parenting – and economics can show you the way".
"It seems there is a lot less happiness to go around in the political world than there is in the camping world".
"Each extra dollar buys less happiness," he says, noting that I would get more happiness from that dollar than Gates did.
Well, in a twist that fairy tales and great books are often built on, his wishes are granted beyond his dreams, and the outcome is less happiness and more misery.
Those who felt less happy or whose happiness assessment stayed about the same, also saw less gain as compared to those who indicated that their level of happiness had improved, although this result was inconclusive for men.
Let's not even think about which version might taste better, much less the happiness of the egg providers.
More upward — and thus downward — relative mobility probably means less aggregate happiness, due to habit formation and frame of reference effects.
Our new AEI president, Arthur Brooks, has published two really path-breaking books with a third soon to a follow in a subject area he more or less invented: happiness studies.
Utilitarians have a simple account of why Mary's behaviour is wrong, as she brings about less human happiness than she could have done.
