For example, Affectiva has discovered a "politeness smile," that is not representative of "happiness," or "smirking," which is a prevalent expression among communities in Southeast Asian countries or India.
Yet it is representative of the happiness of Saturday.
The only system that serves as a means to the end of individual and communal happiness is representative democracy, wherein citizens elect representatives to deliberate and legislate on their behalf and in their interest.
A nationally representative 2016 survey, Blessed Happiness (BH), is an offshoot of a three-year ethnographic project on how people in China define happiness and the good life lasting from 2013 to 2016.
"Election in capitalist countries is a competition between a tiny handful of wealthy and powerful persons, but in the DPRK it is a synonym for happiness of electing representatives among ordinary people and becomes an important occasion to demonstrate the single-minded unity," stated North Korean state media on Sunday.
Of all the emotion types, happiness has the most number of representative words in all three regions.
The design is inspired by Tam's 'China Chic' style and representative of her personal mantra— two characters for happiness (xi) are joined to express the joy of wedded union.
For example, angry, mad, and rage are all representative of anger, and cheerful, enjoy, and joy are representative of happiness; by contrast, examples of complex emotion words include helpless (sadness + fear + anxiety) and desire (happiness + anxiety).
Although the sample they use is not representative of the population, it highlights the effect of transitions on happiness.
In its nationally representative 2006 survey of China, AB includes one overall evaluation variable (happiness xingfu) and one measuring positive emotion (enjoying life xiangshou shenghuo).
