Happiness, pleasures, and emotions

Football viewing centres in an African megacity: viewers’ characteristics and operational dynamics

“…By and large, these factors directly or indirectly in parts or whole determine between the pleasures and displeasures. According to Rossi (2018), happiness plays a vital role in explaining and predicting behaviour. Relating to FVCs and the viewers, the theory of happiness explains or predicts the behaviours of the viewers, which the socio-economic characteristics are reflected in the Health & Wellbeing, Social Network, and Microeconomic Vitality as shown in Figure 1.…”

Can happiness measures be calibrated?

“…There are several conceptions about what constitutes happiness as a positive psychological state, but they all hold that happiness is determined by mental states. Prominent theories about happiness in the sense used here include life-satisfaction theory (Sumner 1996), hedonism about happiness (Mill 1871;Tännsjö 2007), and the currently popular emotional state views of happiness (Haybron 2005(Haybron , 2008Rossi 2018). On the first view, a person's happiness is the extent to which that person is satisfied with their life as a whole, which has both affective and cognitive components.…”

“…On hedonistic accounts, a happy person is a person who has a positive net balance of pleasurable over unpleasurable experiences in their life. And, on emotional state views (Haybron 2005;Rossi 2018), being happy means being in a positive emotional state, which consists of having emotional dispositions that favor positive affective states, such as joyfulness, elation, confidence. These emotional states need not all be conscious mental states (Haybron 2005), however, conscious mental states, or occurrent mental states, are still necessary and important for happiness.…”