#2: hedonic happiness & bottom-up and top-down arguments:

Hedonic happiness or the attainment of subjective wellbeing, is based on three components: 1) Satisfaction w/ life, 2) High positive affect, and 3) Low negative affect. With hedonic wellbeing, a person's satisfaction is based on pleasure. However, social comparisons and the adaption theory have an influence on how people view their satisfaction. The discrepancy theory states that people strive for the ideal, but social comparisons limit ones satisfaction. When someone accomplishes something they feel good, but once they compare their achievements to others it goes away. The adaptation theory is where one has a natural set point and moments/things can make their satisfaction go above or drop below their set point. After an event, positive or negative, an individual will go back to their set point after three months. If someone bought a car they would be on a higher wave, but after awhile that satisfaction would start to drop due to the time and money spent on the car, or getting used to their car and not appreciating it as much, this is an example of the adaptation theory. Bottom-up refers to the idea that something causes wellbeing versus top-down where the wellbeing/happiness causes an outcome. For example, if someone got a job, bottom-down would say they're happy because they got the job compared to top-down saying, they're happy and therefore got the job.