- The authors say proponents of the happiness agenda "only want to know" what? 97
- What kind of property, implied by the averaging and ranking of happiness scores, do the authors insist does not exist? 100-101
- By which metrics are Finland, The Netherlands, and Vietnam (respectively) the world's happiest countries? 103-4
- With what sorts of outcomes are positive and negative emotions correlated? 107 How do Anglophone and East Asian cultures differ on them? 114
- What did J.S. Mill say about people who are inappropriately happy? Do you agree? 110-11
- Who said "much laughter deadens the heart." Agree? 112-3
- What groups do the authors offer as examples of people who are happy "for the wrong reasons"? 117
- The cultural fit of emotions contributes to subjective well-being and to what? 122
- What did Edward Slingerland say about the Chinese concept of Tian? 138
- Chinese feminism is mostly about what? 145
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