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Science
Vol. 348 no. 6236 p. 767
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa3053
  • Technical Comments

Response to Comment on “Morality in everyday life”

  1. Linda J. Skitka4
  1. 1Department of Psychology, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany.
  2. 2Department of Psychology, Saint Peter’s University, Jersey City, NJ 07306, USA.
  3. 3Department of Social Psychology, Tilburg University, 5037 AB, Tilburg, Netherlands.
  4. 4Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.
  1. ↵*Corresponding author. E-mail: wilhelm.hofmann{at}uni-koeln.de

Abstract

Voelkle challenges our conclusions regarding the relationship between morality and momentary happiness/sense of purpose based on methodological concerns. We show that our main conclusions are not affected by this methodological critique and clarify that the discrepancies between our and Voelkle’s effect size estimates can be reconciled by the realization that two different (but compatible) research questions are being asked.

  • Received for publication 24 November 2014.
  • Accepted for publication 3 March 2015.
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