How universal is happiness

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Greater Happiness for a Greater Number (2010, unknown): “Ruut Veenhoven 10 Greater happiness for a greater number Research of this kind can help people to make more informed choices.”
Income inequality and happiness in 119 nations. In search for an optimum that does not appear to exist (2010, background): “He presents evidence that the affective component dominates in the overall evaluation of life and concludes on this basis that happiness is universal rather than culturally relative (Veenhoven, 2010).”
Resident Attitudes to Tourism and Their Effect on Subjective Well-Being (2012, background): “However, several studies have shown that the notion of happiness as being completely “set” is false (Diener and Lucas 2006; Headey 2008, 2010; Veenhoven 1994, 2010b, 2010d).”
Why Inequality Makes Europeans Less Happy: The Role of Distrust, Status Anxiety, and Perceived Conflict (2014, background): “Empirically, broad international comparisons typically do not find this negative effect (Berg and Veenhoven, 2010), but there are notable world-regional differences, suggesting that Europeans are inequalityaverse.”
Cross-national differences in happiness: Cultural measurement bias or effect of culture? (2012, background): “I found that happiness is strongly correlated to physical and mental health and that happiness is predictive of longevity (Veenhoven 2008).”