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broader affective state or an enduring orientation.", "scope_statement": "This model owns joy as a felt positive emotional experience and an attributed concept, including disputed definitions, episode boundaries, eliciting meanings, expression, and situated responses; it does not assume that joy is interchangeable with pleasure, happiness, or wellbeing.", "in_scope": [ "Definitions of joy and the perspectives that distinguish them", "Reported or tentatively attributed episodes of joy, including quiet and exuberant forms", "Objects, occasions, relationships, and personal meanings associated with joy", "Intensity, duration, expression, and coexistence with other emotions", "Evidence used to recognise joy and the limits of that evidence", "Consent-sensitive ways to acknowledge, share, or support joy" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Happiness and wellbeing as overall evaluations of a life", "Pleasure and sensory reward without a further attribution of joy", "Clinical assessment of mood disorders or altered states", "Physiological mechanisms of affect and reward as standalone models", "Celebrations, rituals, and recreational activities as organised practices", "Moral evaluation of the event or conduct that occasions joy" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Ask whether the person identifies the experience as joy rather than inferring it from smiling, laughter, or participation.", "Separate joy about an occasion or experience from a favourable judgement about life overall; record overlap without equating the two.", "Check whether an account concerns felt joy, sensory pleasure, satisfaction with an outcome, or relief from a threat; allow multiple labels when the person uses them.", "Distinguish an experienced emotion from a conventional display of celebration or an obligation to appear happy.", "Do not require high energy or the absence of grief: whether quiet or mixed experiences count as joy depends on the adopted definition and the person's account." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": 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variable; otherwise described; unknown", "why_it_matters": "It keeps energetic expression from becoming a required sign of joy." }, { "name": "Episode course", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Emerging; ongoing; fading; ended; recalled; timing uncertain", "why_it_matters": "A remembered joy and an ongoing experience invite different interpretations and responses." }, { "name": "Object or occasion", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Person-linked event, relationship, activity, memory, anticipation, or no identified object", "why_it_matters": "The person's account of what the joy concerns prevents the agent from inventing a cause." }, { "name": "Co-occurring emotions", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named emotions linked to the same period, with their reported relationship to joy", "why_it_matters": "Joy can be modelled without erasing other feelings reported alongside it." }, { "name": "Preferred response", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Acknowledge privately; share with specified people; celebrate; reflect; leave uninterrupted; undecided", "why_it_matters": "Feeling joy does not imply permission to publicise it or organise a celebration." } ], "affordances": [ "Invite a person to name or clarify a possible experience of joy without imposing the label.", "Compare candidate interpretations such as joy, pleasure, relief, and satisfaction while retaining uncertainty.", "Record an episode's meaning, course, and mixed emotions in the person's own terms.", "Acknowledge or help commemorate joy in a form the person wants.", "Help the person explore activities or relationships they associate with joy without promising an emotional outcome.", "Revise or withdraw an attribution when the person corrects it or the evidence changes." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "meaning-and-boundaries", "name": "Meaning and boundaries", "description": "Establish which sense of joy is being used and what qualifies as an instance.", "rationale": "Without an explicit perspective, the model can silently substitute pleasure, happiness, or a preferred theory of joy.", "layers": [ { "id": "accounts-of-joy", "name": "Accounts of joy", "description": "Locate a definition in the language and perspective of whoever uses it.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-definition", "name": "Attributed definition", "description": "Record the adopted meaning and its holder; treat agreement between perspectives as a question rather than a default.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does joy mean in this person's or framework's account, and what would count as an instance?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-definition-q01" }, { "text": "Who uses this definition, and where is that usage documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-definition-q02" }, { "text": "Does this account require an object, a particular intensity, or a judgement that something is good?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-definition-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-experiences", "name": "Neighbouring experiences", "description": "Examine distinctions from related positive experiences without forcing exclusive categories.", "findings": [ { "id": "joy-versus-neighbours", "name": "Joy versus neighbouring labels", "description": "Preserve the reasons for calling an experience joy rather than, or alongside, pleasure, relief, satisfaction, or happiness.", "questions": [ { "text": "What makes joy the appropriate label for this experience rather than pleasure, relief, or satisfaction alone?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "joy-versus-neighbours-q01" }, { "text": "Is the account describing a felt episode, a recurring disposition, or an evaluation of life overall?", "kind": "definition", "id": "joy-versus-neighbours-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "felt-episode-and-course", "name": "Felt episode and course", "description": "Represent how a particular joy is experienced and how it unfolds.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish present joy from anticipation or recollection and avoid reducing its character to a single positivity score.", "layers": [ { "id": "experiential-quality", "name": "Experiential quality", "description": "Capture the person's description of intensity, activation, and emotional mixture.", "findings": [ { "id": "quality-and-mixture", "name": "Quality and mixture", "description": "Keep felt intensity, energetic expression, and co-occurring emotions distinguishable.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the person describe this joy, including whether it feels quiet, exuberant, or otherwise?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "quality-and-mixture-q01" }, { "text": "What other feelings accompany it, and does the person experience them as compatible, alternating, or conflicting?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "quality-and-mixture-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "temporal-course", "name": "Temporal course", "description": "Identify onset, continuation, ending, and the standpoint from which the episode is described.", "findings": [ { "id": "episode-timing", "name": "Episode timing", "description": "Separate the time of an experience from the time it is reported, remembered, or anticipated.", "questions": [ { "text": "When was the joy felt, and what supports the proposed beginning and ending of the episode?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "episode-timing-q01" }, { "text": "Is joy being felt now about a future or past event, or is the person only predicting or recalling how they felt?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "episode-timing-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "occasion-and-personal-meaning", "name": "Occasion and personal meaning", "description": "Relate joy to what it concerns and why that matters to the person.", "rationale": "The same occasion cannot be assumed to produce the same feeling in different people, and a reported association does not establish causation.", "layers": [ { "id": "objects-and-occasions", "name": "Objects and occasions", "description": "Identify what the joy is about while 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"Religious or spiritual joy" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of joy this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Emotion research investigates joy's elicitors, expression and effects on attention and behaviour.", "Experience sampling records episodes of joy in everyday life.", "Psychotherapy may explore joyful experiences as part of understanding a person's emotional life.", "Philosophical and religious traditions use joy in accounts of flourishing and spiritual life.", "Arts and design seek to evoke or communicate joy." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of joy this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Self-reported momentary joy intensity", "typical_range": "Instrument-dependent; ratings may use 0-10 response scales", "unit": "Ordinal rating points" }, { "quantity": "Frequency of reported joy", "typical_range": "0-100% of sampled occasions within a specified observation period", "unit": "Percent of sampled occasions" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of joy this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating joy, happiness, pleasure and positive affect as interchangeable can obscure different 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"Religious traditions differ in whether joy is understood primarily as an emotion, a cultivated disposition or a spiritual condition." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of joy this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "happiness", "difference": "Happiness can denote overall life satisfaction or sustained well-being; joy more commonly denotes an emotional experience, though usage overlaps." }, { "name": "pleasure", "difference": "Pleasure concerns felt pleasantness, including sensory enjoyment; a pleasant sensation need not involve joy." }, { "name": "contentment", "difference": "Contentment emphasises satisfaction and sufficiency; joy often involves a more salient 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What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "muditā", "joie de vivre", "Joy of Missing Out" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 85 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 3 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one joy from another, and a joy from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a joy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a joy, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge 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"What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a joy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a joy sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a joy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a joy, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a joy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a joy from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a joy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a joy, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a joy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a joy passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a joy between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a joy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a joy, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a joy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a joy, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a joy is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a joy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a joy, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a joy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a joy proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a joy, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a joy and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a joy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a joy, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a joy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a joy consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a joy takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a joy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a joy, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a joy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What joy is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of joy are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is joy operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of joy and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of joy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as joy?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a joy came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a joy and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a joy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a joy, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a joy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a joy is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a joy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a joy, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a joy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }