Measuring the Happiness of Large-Scale Written Expression: Songs, Blogs, and Presidents - Journal of Happiness StudiesThe desire for well-being and the avoidance of suffering arguably underlies all behavior (Argyle 2001; Layard 2005; Gilbert 2006; Snyder and Lopez 2009). Indeed, across a wide range of cultures, people regularly rank happiness as what they want most in life (Argyle 2001; Layard 2005; Lyubomirsky 2007) and numerous countries have attempted to introduce indices of well-being, such as Bhutan’s Nation
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