John Gottman managed to get an extraordinary understanding of relationshjip by filming couples nad analyzing the moment to moment dynamics.
He managed to predict in advance who will stay together and whether it will be a happy or an unhappy relationship.
Why not do the same for happiness? It is very intuitive that one thoughts and its resulting emotions and reactions leads to another and so on. There is clearly a hell lot of non linear dynamcis going on.
PS. Barbara Frederickson (2005) has a model positing that one needs aobut 3 times as much positive affect to get happy. But she did a theoretical model and has not got iniot tracking moment by moment data
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