Joy - Wikipedia Joy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Feeling of happiness For other uses, see Joy (disambiguation). This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. You can help. The talk page may contain suggestions. (January 2020) Laughter, like that of these Bangladeshi children, is a typical expression of joy. Part of a series on Emotions Acceptance Affection Amusement Anger Angst Anguish Annoyance Anticipation Anxiety Apathy Arousal Awe Boredom Confidence Contempt Contentment Courage Curiosity Depression Desire Disappointment Disgust Distrust Doubt Ecstasy Embarrassment Empathy Enthusiasm Envy Euphoria Faith Fear Frustration Gratification Gratitude Greed Grief Guilt Happiness Hatred Hope Horror Hostility Humiliation Interest Jealousy Joy Kindness Loneliness Love Lust Nostalgia Outrage Panic Passion Pity Pleasure Pride Rage Regret Rejection Remorse Resentment Sadness Self-pity Shame Shock Shyness Social connection Sorrow Suffering Surprise Trust Wonder Worry v t e The word joy means a feeling of great pleasure and happiness.[1] Contents 1 Distinction vs similar states 2 Causes 3 See also 4 References Distinction vs similar states[edit] C. S. Lewis saw a clear distinction between joy, pleasure, and happiness: "I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy",[2] and "I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and Pleasure. Joy (in my sense) has indeed one characteristic, and one only, in common with them; the fact that anyone who has experienced it will want it again... I doubt whether anyone who has tasted it would ever, if both were in his power, exchange it for all the pleasures in the world. But then Joy is never in our power and Pleasure often is."[3] Causes[edit] The causes of joy have been ascribed to various sources. "When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” - Gautama Buddha,[4] "[Joy is] the emotional dimension of the good life, of a life that is both going well and is being lived well." - Miroslav Volf[5] "This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." - George Bernard Shaw[6] Arianna Huffington has also been a big advocate of joy triggers, evoking joy through certain triggers.[7] These are triggers which related to activities that stimulate certain neurochemicals such as dopamine.[8] According to Huffington, activities that are able to evoke a positive neurochemical response are producers of joy and are a great source of goodness. Ingrid Fetell Lee has studied the sources of joy. She wrote the book "Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness",[9] and gave a TED talk on the subject, titled "Where joy hides and how to find it."[10] Through her design studies she has found out that joy hides in colorful objects, an abundant number of objects, round objects, and elevating objects. See also[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Happiness. Wikiquote has quotations related to: Joy Joie de vivre Happiness Reward system Pleasure References[edit] ^ "Joy - Definition of joy in English by Oxford Dictionaries". Oxford Dictionaries - English. Retrieved 21 November 2017. ^ Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life. (p. 169) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition. ^ Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life. (p. 18) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition. ^ "A quote by Gautama Buddha". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 21 November 2017. ^ Volf, Miroslav (Spring 2016). Joy and Human Flourishing. Fortress Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-4514-8207-2. ^ "Man and Superman - Wikiquote". En.wikiquote.org. Retrieved 21 November 2017. ^ Huffington, Ariana. "Joy Triggers". ^ Jiang, Daniel. "Getting High Naturally - Happiness on Demand". Happyness By Design. Retrieved 7 September 2020. ^ Lee, Ingrid Fetell. Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness. ^ Lee, Ingrid Fetell, Where joy hides and how to find it, retrieved 2020-10-02 v t e Emotions (list) Emotions Acceptance Adoration Aesthetic emotions Affection Agitation Agony Amusement Anger Angst Anguish Annoyance Anticipation Anxiety Apathy Arousal Attraction Awe Boredom Calmness Compassion Confidence Contempt Contentment Courage Cruelty Curiosity Defeat Depression Desire Despair Disappointment Disgust Distrust Ecstasy Embarrassment Vicarious Empathy Enthrallment Enthusiasm Envy Euphoria Excitement Fear Flow (psychology) Frustration Gratification Gratitude Greed Grief Guilt Happiness Hatred Hiraeth Homesickness Hope Horror Hostility Humiliation Hygge Hysteria Indulgence Infatuation Insecurity Inspiration Interest Irritation Isolation Jealousy Joy Kindness Loneliness Longing Love Limerence Lust Mono no aware Neglect Nostalgia Outrage Panic Passion Pity Self-pity Pleasure Pride Grandiosity Hubris Insult Vanity Rage Regret Social connection Rejection Remorse Resentment Sadness Melancholy Saudade Schadenfreude Sehnsucht Self-confidence Sentimentality Shame Shock Shyness Sorrow Spite Stress Suffering Surprise Sympathy Tenseness Trust Wonder Worry World views Cynicism Defeatism Nihilism Optimism Pessimism Reclusion Weltschmerz Related Affect consciousness in education measures in psychology Affective computing forecasting neuroscience science spectrum Affectivity positive negative Appeal to emotion Emotion and art and memory and music and sex classification evolution expressed functional accounts group homeostatic perception recognition in conversation in animals regulation interpersonal work Emotional aperture bias blackmail competence conflict contagion detachment dysregulation eating exhaustion expression intelligence and bullying intimacy isolation lability labor lateralization literacy prosody reasoning responsivity security selection symbiosis well-being Emotionality bounded Emotions and culture in decision-making in the workplace in virtual communication history moral self-conscious social social sharing sociology Feeling Gender and emotional expression Group affective tone Interactions between the emotional and executive brain systems Meta-emotion Pathognomy Pathos Social emotional development Stoic passions Theory affect appraisal discrete emotion somatic marker constructed emotion Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joy&oldid=992761374" Categories: Emotions Happiness Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Wikipedia articles needing rewrite from January 2020 All articles needing rewrite Commons category link is locally defined Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikiquote Languages العربية Avañe'ẽ Български Català Čeština Dansk Deutsch Eesti Ελληνικά Español Esperanto Euskara Français Frysk Հայերեն Ido বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী עברית Lietuvių Nederlands Norsk bokmål Norsk nynorsk Occitan Polski Português Română Runa Simi Русиньскый Русский Sicilianu Slovenščina Suomi Svenska Türkçe Українська اردو 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 6 December 2020, at 23:25 (UTC). 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