the importance of concerning happiness and happiness- making items in organizations and enterprises comes from the fact that it can positively affect productivity through increasing personnel positive emotions and decreasing their negative emotions. as such, the current research has been developed in order to evaluate the status of happiness in one of the research-oriented enterprises. in the c...

This paper intends to provide an evaluation of where the economic research on happiness stands and in which interesting directions it might develop. First, the current state of the research on happiness in economics is briefly discussed. We emphasize the potential of happiness research in testing competing theories of individual behavior. Second, the crucial issue of causality is taken up illus...

This paper explores a novel analysis of adjectives in the comparative and the positive based on the notion of a trope, rather than the notion of a degree. Tropes are particularized properties, concrete manifestations of properties in individuals. The point of departure is that a sentence like John is happier than Mary is intuitively equivalent to ‘John’s happiness exceeds Mary’s happiness’, a s...

Although much research has examined the effect of income on happiness, we suggest that how people spend their money may be at least as important as how much money they earn. Specifically, we hypothesized that spending money on other people may have a more positive impact on happiness than spending money on oneself. Providing converging evidence for this hypothesis, we found that spending more o...

We model happiness as an evolutionary instrument designed to motivate the individual towards seeking evolutionarily desirable goals. We assume that happiness is scarce as an incentive instrument, implying that an optimal happiness function will incorporate all the information that is valuable in terms of assessing the effort exerted by the individual. The model provides a formal means to accoun...

Psychologists and sociologists usually interpret happiness scores as cardinal and comparable across respondents, and thus run OLS regressions on happiness and changes in happiness. Economists usually assume only ordinality and have mainly used ordered latent response models, thereby not taking satisfactory account of fixed individual traits. We address this problem by developing a conditional e...

It may be suggested that the representation of happiness in online media is collective in nature because it is a picture of happiness communicated by relatively few individuals to the masses. The present study is based on articles published in Swedish daily online newspapers in 2010; the data corpus comprises 1.5 million words. We investigated which words were most (un)common in articles contai...

If our sense of happiness is closely connected to brain functions, it might become possible to manipulate our brain in a much more refined and effective way than current methods allow. In this paper I will make some remarks on the manipulation of the sense of happiness and illuminate the relationship between human dignity and happiness. The President’s Council on Bioethics discusses this topic ...

BACKGROUNDS/OBJECTIVES A discussion and analysis of factors that contribute to nurses' happiness index can be useful in developing effective interventions to improve nurses' enthusiasm, sense of honor and pride and to improve the efficiency and quality of medical services. METHODS In this study, 206 registered nurses at the 2011 annual encounter for 12 Hanchuan hospitals completed a questionn...