Interesting study. 1. Did they measure short-term happiness vs long-term happiness? The study involved making people feel good for a short period of time and a

Interesting study. 1. Did they measure short-term happiness vs long-term happiness? The study involved making people feel good for a short period of time and a task whose duration was for a short period of time. 2. Is it enough to make your employee happy right before he starts on a task, even if he is miserable throughout the remaining period? What will be the effects of productivity in such a situation? 3. The paper refers to Erez and Isen (2005): "positive well-being induces subjects to change their allocation of time towards more interesting tasks, and that, despite this, the subjects retain similar levels of performance in the less interesting tasks". Doesn't this mean that a person's state of happiness does not have much of an effect for doing mundane tasks?