Ways to study the nature and frequency of our daily emotions: reply to the commentaries on “Emotions in everyday life”

Ways to study the nature and frequency of our Ways to study the nature and frequency of our daily emotions: reply to the commentaries on daily emotions: reply to the commentaries on ''Emotions in everyday life'' ''Emotions in everyday life'' My co-authors and I are impressed by the wide range of issues addressed in the commentaries on our article about everyday emotions, as well as by the incisive analyses, interesting examples and rich data sets presented by the commentators.We welcome the opportunity to reply to these commentaries and thereby inaugurate an interdisciplinary debate on the nature of emotional experience, a topic that has fascinated scholars in the humanities as well as the social and behavioral sciences since antiquity.As the commentaries beautifully illustrate, in spite of the venerable history of scholarship on the phenomenon, there is still no consensus on how to define emotion or how to study it in an appropriate fashion.In reviewing the issues raised, I will highlight the major questions asked in our research. 1What is an emotion?How many different emotions are there?How often do these emotions occur?What factors make the occurrence of a particular emotion more likely?What are the modal antecedent and response profiles for the different emotions?