Editing Happiness (section)

===Relation to morality===
[[Philosophy of happiness]] is often discussed in conjunction with [[ethics]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Annas|first=Julia|url=http://archive.org/details/moralityhappines00anna|title=Morality of happiness|date=1995|publisher=Oxford : Oxford University Press|others=Library Genesis|isbn=978-0195096521}}</ref> Traditional European societies, inherited from the Greeks and from Christianity, often linked happiness with morality. In this context, morality was the performance in a specific role in a certain kind of social life.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hare |first=John |date=2006 |title=Religion and Morality |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religion-morality/ |website=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |access-date=23 March 2022 |archive-date=11 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190911130605/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religion-morality/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Happiness remains a difficult term for [[moral philosophy]]. Throughout the history of moral philosophy, there has been an oscillation between attempts to define morality in terms of consequences leading to happiness or defining it as nothing to do with happiness at all.<ref>{{cite book |last1=MacIntyre |first1=Alasdair |title=A Short History of Ethics |url=https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryethi00maci_019 |url-access=limited |date=1998 |publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. |location=London |page=[https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryethi00maci_019/page/n181 167] |isbn=978-0415173988 |edition=Second}}</ref>

In psychology, connections between happiness and morality have been studied in a variety of ways. Empirical research suggests that laypeople's judgments of a person's happiness in part depend on perceptions of that person's morality, suggesting that judgments of others' happiness involve moral evaluation.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Phillips |first1=Jonathan |last2=Misenheimer |first2=Luke |last3=Knobe |first3=Joshua |title=The Ordinary Concept of Happiness (and Others Like It) |journal=Emotion Review |date=July 2011 |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=320–322 |doi=10.1177/1754073911402385|s2cid=19273270 }}</ref> A large body of research also suggests that engaging in prosocial behavior can increase happiness.<ref name="Aknin2021">{{cite journal |last1=Aknin |first1=Lara B. |last2=Whillans |first2=Ashley V. |title=Helping and Happiness: A Review and Guide for Public Policy |journal=Social Issues and Policy Review |date=January 2021 |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=3–34 |doi=10.1111/sipr.12069|s2cid=225505120 }}</ref><ref name="Hui2020">{{cite journal |last1=Hui |first1=Bryant P. H. |last2=Ng |first2=Jacky C. K. |last3=Berzaghi |first3=Erica |last4=Cunningham-Amos |first4=Lauren A. |last5=Kogan |first5=Aleksandr |title=Rewards of kindness? A meta-analysis of the link between prosociality and well-being. |journal=Psychological Bulletin |date=December 2020 |volume=146 |issue=12 |pages=1084–1116 |doi=10.1037/bul0000298|pmid=32881540 |s2cid=221497259 }}</ref><ref name="Curry2018">{{cite journal |last1=Curry |first1=Oliver Scott |last2=Rowland |first2=Lee A. |last3=Van Lissa |first3=Caspar J. |last4=Zlotowitz |first4=Sally |last5=McAlaney |first5=John |last6=Whitehouse |first6=Harvey |title=Happy to help? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of performing acts of kindness on the well-being of the actor |journal=Journal of Experimental Social Psychology |date=May 2018 |volume=76 |pages=320–329 |doi=10.1016/j.jesp.2018.02.014|s2cid=76658949 |doi-access=free }}</ref>