What is the concept of hedonic happiness?
Hedonic happiness is the attainment of subjective wellbeing (SWB). SWB is defined by three different variables: Life satisfaction, high positive affect, and low negative affect. Life satisfaction is measured by how your reality compares to your life ideal. For example, if your dream is to be a millionaire, you won't have a lot of life satisfaction if you have a minimum wage income. The others are the emotion associated with momentary events, such as the joy from getting a new car or the sadness from crashing that car.
What are top-down and bottom-up arguments?
Bottom-up arguments take the variable cause the phenomenon, while top-down are the opposite. For example, a bottom-up argument would say that having a lot of positive experiences makes people happy, while a top-down argument would say that happy people tend to have a lot of positive experiences.
Your explanation was short and to the point. I did not mention the idea that happiness comes from life expectations so it was good to read and remember that as an important point of hedonic happiness
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