Happiness Is a Personal(ity) Thing

Happiness is a personal(ity) thing: the genetics of personality and well-being in a representative sample.

Subjective well-being is known to be related to personality traits. However, to date, nobody has examined whether personality and subjective well-being share a common genetic structure. We used a representative sample of 973 twin pairs to test the hypothesis that heritable differences in subjective well-being are entirely accounted for by the genetic architecture of the Five-Factor Model's pers...

The unhappy thing about happiness economics

Time series data show that nations do not get happier over time as they get richer. In contrast, happiness is positively correlated with individual income within a given country at any point in time; the rich generally report greater happiness than the poor. This, the socalled Easterlin paradox, named after the doyen of happiness studies, Richard Easterlin, is also discussed at length in the ha...

A System for Personality and Happiness Detection

— This work proposes a platform for estimating personality and happiness. Starting from Eysenck's theory about human's personality, authors seek to provide a platform for collecting text messages from social media (Whatsapp), and classifying them into different personality categories. Although there is not a clear link between personality features and happiness, some correlations between them c...

Personality Traits, Emotional Intelligence, and Multiple Happiness

This study set out to re-examine the predictors of self-reported trait happiness as measured by the Oxford Happiness Inventory (OHI) as well as the predictors of various happiness types proposed by Morris (2004). In all, 120 Cypriot participants completed the 4 questionnaires: OHI, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue-SF), and Morris Multip...

Is Cooperation a Good Thing?