Routehappy lets travelers search for flights on a particular route, like New York to San Francisco, then sort the results based on various "happiness factors," including whether the flight offers Wi-Fi.
Prayuth Chan-ocha, who seized control of the country in a coup in May and who has since launched various "happiness festivals" to boost public morale, says he has no need to float away any sadness because he is perfectly happy.
In particular, he wanted to investigate Denmark's consistently high scores on various happiness indexes, since these figures conflicted with his own observations that "they didn't seem that happy to me", and challenge the perception that the Nordic nations as a group are "little jolly green countries in the north".
These variables have been used in various studies of happiness, such as Easterlin (1995, 2001), Ferrer-i-Carbonell (2005), Mentzakis and Moro (2009), Blanchflower and Oswald (2004, 2008), Pedersen and Schmidt (2011), Peiró (2006), Roysamb et al.
So, what is your emotional state while reading this piece about various levels of happiness?
Midway through the two-hour show, he dismissed his band and sat down at a baby grand piano for a well-rehearsed bit in which he explained how three of his tunes -- "Still," "Oh No" and "Stuck on You" -- demonstrated the way that Lionel Richie has always been there for lovers in various states of happiness and dejection.
The empirical basis of this discipline is a vast amount of data suggesting correlations (or lack thereof) between happiness and various genetic, social, economic, and personal factors.
Our framework leverages several sentiment extraction techniques to generate various sentiment features, including happiness score [38], arousal, valence and dominance scores [39], polarization and strength [40], and emotion score [41] (cf. Table 2).
We explored the various factors contributing to happiness; among them were gratitude and an appreciation for the simpler things in life.
Our data do not allow us to identify the actual causal mechanisms of the spread of happiness, but various mechanisms are possible.
Pictograms could represent events involving explicit forms whereas ideograms could represent abstract ideas, implicit qualities and concepts such as heat, cold, sadness, pain, happiness, prettiness, various gods, and primary value judgments such as good, evil, right and wrong.
