The facial expressions are including three periodic expressions (chewing, speaking, gargling) and five transient expressions (sadness, surprise, happiness, pout, and angry).
This is in direct contrast to the studies by George et al [ 2], Pascual-Leone et al [ 3] and Dearing et al [ 1], which showed left prefrontal rTMS to induce a transient decrease in self-rated happiness and an increase in sadness compared with the effects of right prefrontal cortical rTMS.
It's rare for a TV show to acknowledge that happiness is a fragile, transient thing.
Happiness in soccer is transient, and it depends on how long Götze feels the love of the club he joined as an 8-year-old and for whom he made his first-team debut two years ago.
Donaldson says "he realised, at an early age, that happiness and beauty were transient".
But then you might ask, "Where is it?" The problem, they discovered lies not in its absence, but in our human tendency to look in the wrong place, mistaking ordinary and transient pleasure for a resilient and enduring happiness.
The Israeli scholar Yuval Noah Harari rejects Jeremy Bentham's theory that human life is defined only by pleasure or pain, where happiness (or pleasure) is little more than the transient, addictive hit of physical sensation.
Happiness is a complex, nebulous state that is fed by transient simple pleasures, as well as the more sustained rewards of activities that only make sense from a perspective of years or decades.
The ancient yoga and spiritual teachings stress that happiness is real only when we let go of seeking material and transient things and discover the lasting joy that is within.
In an age of "happiness indexes" and countries ranked by their supposed wellbeing, are we overlooking the transient, often trivial moments in which joy (rather than contentment) truly resides?
