Can't stop laughing!

From aliveatolaf:

Did you know Bush reads Camus?

Measuring happiness

Today I dove into the literature on assessing "subjective well-being." First I read about the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire, but then I read a scathing critique (it's just measuring a jumble of other things, many of them not essential for happiness, with no theory behind the weightings). I read about a single-item measure, which isn't terribly interesting. Then I read about Kahneman's idea of getting people to do moment-by-moment hedonic ratings, which of course sidesteps the fact that well-being usually has more to it than that. So now I'll read about Diener's life satisfaction scale, which seems well-regarded, and then I guess I'm back to Carol Ryff and her scale that assesses components of eudaimonia (that is, "thriving" and "well-being" in Aristotle's sense).