Like most "happiness research", this seems to rely on dodgy methodology and be aimed at some sort of political agenda. Ooh, and here it is: So what are the pol

Like most "happiness research", this seems to rely on dodgy methodology and be aimed at some sort of political agenda. Ooh, and here it is: So what are the policy implications for this new research. The researchers said single-shot events such as a tax cut will probably have little impact on people's happiness. By contrast, "policies that lead to small but repeated gains are likely to succeed." Well, for starters, who says that a tax cut is a "single shot event"? A tax cut would give me more money every single month, which I could then use to buy more of those "lots of little events".