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Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being defined by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.

Happy mental states may also reflect judgements by a person about their overall well-being.

A variety of biological, psychological, economic, religious and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources.

Various research groups, including positive psychology and happiness economics are employing the scientific method to research questions about what "happiness" is, and how it might be attained.

Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that began in the United States around 1870.

Charles Sanders Peirce, generally considered to be its founder, later described it in his pragmatic maxim:

Positivism is a philosophical theory stating that positive knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations.

Thus, information derived from sensory experience, interpreted through reason and logic, forms the exclusive source of all authoritative knowledge.

Positivism holds that valid knowledge (certitude or truth) is found only in this derived knowledge.

Motivation is a theoretical construct used to explain behaviour.

It gives the reason for people's actions, desires, and needs.

Motivation can also be defined as one's direction to behavior, or what causes a person to want to repeat a behavior and vice versa.

A motive is what prompts the person to act in a certain way, or at least develop an inclination for specific behavior.

According to Maehr and Meyer, "Motivation is a word that is part of the popular culture as few other psychological concepts are.".

Self-help or self-improvement is a self-guided improvement—economically, intellectually, or emotionally—often with a substantial psychological basis.

Many different self-help group programs exist, each with its own focus, techniques, associated beliefs, proponents and in some cases, leaders.

Concepts and terms originating in self-help culture and Twelve-Step culture, such as recovery, dysfunctional families, and codependency have become firmly integrated in mainstream language.