A continuous and a discrete rating scale were implemented for a single item happiness question in a representative … superiority of the continuous scale. Results raise doubts about earlier inferences drawn on correlates of happiness. So far only … self-assessed discrete happiness data have been used for research into the determinants of happiness. However, distribution …

Research on happiness has produced valuable insights into the sources of subjective well-being that are of importance … to economics. A major finding from this literature is that people exhibit a 'baseline' level of happiness that shows … persistent strength over time. Here we explore the extent to which baseline happiness is infl uenced by genetic variation. Using …