Current and future directions in culture and happiness research

•The concept and predictors of happiness vary across cultures.•Americans highly value happiness and define it in terms of pleasure and enjoyment, whereas other cultures are more ambivalent about happiness and highlight its transient and potentially socially disruptive nature.•Recent work demonstrates new mediators, individual predictors, societal factors, within-culture variations, and interventions that vary cross-culturally or help explain cultural differences in happiness.