diminished steadily over time, the mentality-related gap changed non-monotonically, reflecting different happiness responses of …

Large-scale social surveys typically elicit levels of happiness and/or life satisfaction. This paper studies how such … reports of happiness and life satisfaction are related to measures of positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA). Major … findings are the following: (1) PA and NA levels jointly predict happiness better than they predict life satisfaction. (2) PA …