RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICY USE OF HAPPINESS METRICS

It is time to sum up. There are theoretical lessons and practical consequences for the conduct of happiness and well-being science and its policy arms. There is vast intercultural and intracultural variation in standards and conceptions of happiness and well-being. All the standards and ideals, both scientific and philosophical, as well as those internal to specific cultures, traditions, and subcultures are normative, involving views about what matters, variation about which emotions are prized, at what intensity, with what expressions, about what emotional balance consists in, about whether happiness is an important thing or not, and if so, what kind is