Abstract
ABSTRACTIn what follows, I express my deep gratitude for the thoughtful and incisive contributions from the respondents. In my reply, I focus on offering some brief reflections on some of the most important topics upon which these responses converged. First, I identify what emerged as the most pressing research priorities for future work in the science of joy, including: (1) mapping the conceptual space for joy, (2) developing a standard technique for joy induction, and (3) studying joy across a wider variety of populations and contexts. Next, I discuss two additional areas of research for joy: pathologically afflicted joys and differences in individuals’ reported frequencies of joyful experience. Finally, I draw upon and echo the arguments of many of the articles in this issue, which suggest that the science of joy should be a major priority for researchers, both for its importance to academic psychology as a discipline and also for its potential cultural impacts related to the broader social good.
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