This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for …

of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries' happiness; Britain and …

of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly …, and the greater the shortfall, the less one's happiness. There is thus an asymmetry in the psychological roots of income … evaluations when income is rising vs. falling , and this causes a corresponding asymmetry in the response of happiness to the …