Research on measuring happiness

Abstract

People have been exploring happiness through various "tools", "processes" and "objects" to uncover the mystery of happiness. But few people have measured happiness quantitatively. In this article, I will analyze the reasons why happiness cannot be measured from the perspective of the "tools", "processes" and "objects" of happiness measurement, and highlight the shortcomings of current happiness measurement. I hope this study will help us identify the barriers we need to overcome when measuring happiness. Of course, there are a number of limitations in this paper, such as the lack of discussion of happiness measurement from a cognitive neuroscience perspective and the lack of discussion of the use of multiple methods to measure happiness (the combination of daily reconstruction and glucocorticoid testing, etc.). Although happiness cannot yet be measured, it is clearly something we value very much and it is worth our effort to learn more about it.