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Robert A. Emmons

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#223

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#94

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Personality Psychology

#8

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#9

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#4

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According to Wikipedia, Robert A. Emmons is an American psychologist and professor at UC Davis . His research is in the field of personality psychology, emotion psychology, and psychology of religion. Background Emmons completed his undergraduate psychology degree in 1980 at the University of Southern Maine, Portland. He then obtained a M.A. in 1984 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in personality psychology, and a Ph.D., in the same subject from the same university in 1986, with a thesis "Personal Strivings: An Approach to Personality and Subjective Well-Being". He was an assistant professor at Michigan State University from 1986 to 1988 and came to Davis at the same rank in 1988. He was appointed associate professor in 1990, and full professor in 1996. He has written or edited 6 books and over 100 articles for scientific journals. He is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Positive Psychology.

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Robert A. Emmons's Published Works

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The Satisfaction with Life Scale (1985) (24881)
Counting blessings versus burdens: an experimental investigation of gratitude and subjective well-being in daily life. (2003) (2739)
The grateful disposition: a conceptual and empirical topography. (2002) (2363)
The independence of positive and negative affect. (1984) (2344)
Personal strivings: An approach to personality and subjective well-being. (1986) (1688)
Is gratitude a moral affect? (2001) (1348)
The psychology of religion. (2003) (1324)
Narcissism: theory and measurement. (1987) (1040)
The Psychology of Ultimate Concerns: Motivation and Spirituality in Personality (1999) (978)
Factor analysis and construct validity of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory. (1984) (881)
Counting blessings in early adolescents: an experimental study of gratitude and subjective well-being. (2008) (734)
Intensity and frequency: dimensions underlying positive and negative affect. (1985) (695)
Is Spirituality an Intelligence? Motivation, Cognition, and the Psychology of Ultimate Concern (2000) (685)
Gratitude in intermediate affective terrain: links of grateful moods to individual differences and daily emotional experience. (2004) (521)
Personality Correlates of Subjective Well-Being (1985) (473)
Person x situation interactions: choice of situations and congruence response models. (1984) (471)
Gratitude as a Human Strength: Appraising the Evidence (2000) (468)
Affect intensity and reactions to daily life events. (1986) (459)
Personal goals, life meaning, and virtue: Wellsprings of a positive life. (2003) (431)
The Psychology of Gratitude (2004) (413)
An evaluation of subjective well-being measures (1985) (411)
Abstract versus concrete goals: personal striving level, physical illness, and psychological well-being. (1992) (411)
Gratitude and the science of positive psychology. (2002) (407)
Striving for the Sacred: Personal Goals, Life Meaning, and Religion (2005) (404)
The grateful disposition: A conceptual and empirical topography (2002) (403)
Personal strivings, daily life events, and psychological and physical well-being. (1991) (400)
The personal striving approach to personality. (1989) (351)
Striving and feeling: Personal goals and subjective well-being. (1996) (346)
Happiness is Everything, or is it? (1994) (309)
Happiness of the very wealthy (1985) (285)
Being grateful is beyond good manners: Gratitude and motivation to contribute to society among early adolescents (2010) (257)
Assessing Spirituality Through Personal Goals: Implications for Research on Religion and Subjective Well-Being (1998) (254)
Relational Humility: Conceptualizing and Measuring Humility as a Personality Judgment (2011) (243)
Gratitude and the Reduced Costs of Materialism in Adolescents (2011) (242)
Measuring gratitude in youth: assessing the psychometric properties of adult gratitude scales in children and adolescents. (2011) (238)
Why Gratitude Enhances Well-Being: What We Know, What We Need to Know (2010) (234)
Locating narcissism within the interpersonal circumplex and the five-factor model (1992) (219)
Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier (2007) (217)
Gratitude as a psychotherapeutic intervention. (2013) (216)
Choice and avoidance of everyday situations and affect congruence: Two models of reciprocal interactionism. (1986) (210)
Spirituality and Intelligence: Problems and Prospects (2000) (199)
Influence of impulsivity and sociability on subjective well-being (1986) (184)
A goal-affect analysis of everyday situational choices☆ (1986) (175)
The Psychology of Gratitude: An Introduction. (2004) (170)
Humility and the Development and Repair of Social Bonds: Two Longitudinal Studies (2013) (157)
Personal Strivings and Motive Dispositions: Exploring the Links (1991) (156)
Narcissists as “Victims”: The Role of Narcissism in the Perception of Transgressions (2003) (140)
Positive psychology in a pandemic: buffering, bolstering, and building mental health (2021) (137)
Nice Thinking! An Educational Intervention That Teaches Children to Think Gratefully (2014) (136)
Emotional conflict and well-being: relation to perceived availability, daily utilization, and observer reports of social support. (1995) (136)
Religion in the Psychology of Personality: An Introduction (1999) (135)
Factors predicting satisfaction judgments: A comparative examination (1985) (130)
The assessment of gratitude. (2003) (128)
When losses lead to gains: Personal goals and the recovery of meaning. (1998) (116)
Relationship between Narcissism and Sensation Seeking (1981) (111)
Giving Thanks: Spiritual and Religious Correlates of Gratitude (2005) (109)
Psychological, physical, and interpersonal correlates of emotional expressiveness, conflict, and control (1991) (107)
Levels and domains in personality: an introduction. (1995) (104)
Gratitude in Practice and the Practice of Gratitude (2012) (103)
Goal orientation and emotional well-being: Linking goals and affect through the self. (1996) (100)
Choice of situations and congruence models of interactionism (1985) (99)
Methods of procrastination and their relation to self-control and self-reinforcement: An exploratory study. (1995) (98)
Emotion and Religion. (2005) (97)
Goal conflict and the self-regulation of action. (1993) (91)
Exploring the Relations Between Motives and Traits: The Case of Narcissism (1989) (84)
Motives and Life Goals (1997) (84)
The structure of inhibition (1992) (83)
Situation selection as a moderator of response consistency and stability. (1986) (81)
Spiritual Well-Being, Spiritual Intelligence, and Healthy Workplace Policy (2010) (79)
Procrastination as revenge: Do people report using delays as a strategy for vengeance? (1994) (75)
Personal striving differentiation and affective reactivity. (1989) (69)
An interactional approach to the study of personality and emotion. (1986) (64)
Personality and forgiveness. (2000) (62)
Patience as a virtue: Religious and psychological perspectives (2007) (60)
Thanks!: How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier (2008) (57)
Comparing differentiation and integration within personal goal systems (1995) (57)
Joy is a distinct positive emotion: Assessment of joy and relationship to gratitude and well-being (2018) (56)
Religion and Spirituality? The Roles of Sanctification and the Concept of God (1999) (56)
Benevolent Images of God, Gratitude, and Physical Health Status (2015) (50)
Health and Well-Being Among the Non-religious: Atheists, Agnostics, and No Preference Compared with Religious Group Members (2016) (44)
Emotional conflict and well-being: relation to perceived availability, daily utilization, and observer reports of social support (1995) (40)
Spirituality: Recent Progress. (2006) (38)
Longitudinal study of religious and spiritual transformation in adolescents attending young life summer camp: Assessing the epistemic, intrapsychic, and moral sociability functions of conversion. (2014) (37)
Gratitude Interventions: A Review and Future Agenda (2014) (36)
A Dark Side of Gratitude? Distinguishing between Beneficial Gratitude and its Harmful Impostors for the Positive Clinical Psychology of Gratitude and Well‐Being (2016) (32)
Spiritual Striving and Seeking the Sacred: Religion as Meaningful Goal-Directed Behavior (2013) (31)
General feelings of gratitude, gratitude to god, and hemoglobin A1c: Exploring variations by gender* (2017) (27)
Psychological and Theological Reflections on Grace and Its Relevance for Science and Practice (2017) (23)
eds. , The Psychology of Gratitude. (2004) (23)
Assessing the Relationship Between Religious Involvement and Health Behaviors (2017) (23)
Religion and Personality (1964) (21)
Queen of the Virtues? Gratitude as Human Strength (2012) (21)
Attachment Predicts Adolescent Conversions at Young Life Religious Summer Camps (2012) (20)
Words of Gratitude: For Mind, Body, and Soul (2001) (19)
Personality and Spiritual Development (2006) (18)
Gratitude Works!: A Twenty-One-Day Program for Creating Emotional Prosperity (2013) (18)
Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) 1985 (2007) (17)
The repressive personality and social support. (1992) (16)
Current Status of the Motive Concept (1993) (15)
Thematic analysis, experience sampling, and personal goals (1992) (15)
E3A06: Randomized phase III trial of lenalidomide versus observation alone in patients with asymptomatic high-risk smoldering multiple myeloma. (2019) (14)
Joy: An introduction to this special issue (2020) (13)
The Psychology of Forgiveness in the World Religions (2009) (12)
Virtue development following spiritual transformation in adolescents attending evangelistic summer camp (2014) (12)
The psychology of virtue: Integrating positive psychology and the psychology of religion. (2017) (11)
Personality, Identity, and Character: Greatest of the Virtues? Gratitude and the Grateful Personality (2009) (10)
Gratitude. (2019) (8)
Openness to Emotion as Predictor of Perceived, Requested, and Observer Reports of Social Support (1997) (7)
The Big Three, The Big Four, or The Big Five? (1989) (7)
How Brain and Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion VOLUME 1 Evolution , Genes , and the Religious Brain (2007) (7)
Feeling the intangible: antecedents of gratitude toward intangible benefactors (2021) (6)
Development and Validation of the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ) in Japanese Undergraduate Students (2016) (5)
Ingratitude: Greatest of the Vices? (2020) (3)
High goal conflict and low goal meaning are associated with an increased likelihood of subsequent religious transformation in adolescents (2019) (3)
Gratitude Questionnaire-6 (2011) (3)
Ambivalence over Expressing Emotion: Psychological and Physical Implications. (1987) (3)
Maneviyat Bir Zekâ mıdır? Güdülenme, Biliş ve Nihaî İlgi Psikolojisi (2008) (3)
Personal Strivings: Toward a Theory of Personality and Subjective Well-Being (Motives, Goals, Affect) (1986) (3)
Satisfaction With Life Scale 1985 (2003) (3)
PURPOSEFUL ACTION AND THE STRIVING FOR THE SACRED (2007) (2)
Using digital storytelling to understand service users' mental health recovery and address stigma among nursing students. (2022) (2)
Gods and Goals: Spiritual Striving as Purposeful Action (2008) (2)
Different Styles Reach Different Kids: An empirical enquiry into Young Life Camping Outreach Programs in the USA and Europe (2009) (1)
Relational Humility Scale (2013) (1)
Humility: Humility, the modest strength. (2013) (1)
A Systems Framework or Systems Frameworks (1998) (1)
Psychological Assessment Measuring Gratitude in Youth : Assessing the Psychometric Properties of Adult Gratitude Scales in Children and Adolescents (2011) (1)
Health Problems Questionnaire (2019) (0)
Negative Affectivity Measure (2012) (0)
Journal für Psychologie: jfp-3-2008-03 (2009) (0)
ROBERT A. EMMONS AND ED DIENER FACTORS P R E D I C T I N G SATISFACTION JUDGMENTS: A COMPARATIVE EXAMINATION * (2004) (0)
Running head: MEASURING GRATITUDE IN YOUTH (2010) (0)
ROBERT A. EMMONS, CHI CHEUNG and KEIVAN TEHRANI ASSESSING SPIRITUALITY THROUGH PERSONAL GOALS: IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH ON RELIGION AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING* (1998) (0)
De Luxe: The Tale of the Blue Comet (2009) (0)
Editorial (2010) (0)
The Turfgrass Information File and TurfByte (2020) (0)
Benefit-Appraisal Vignettes (2018) (0)
Editorial (2012) (0)
Two Views of The Remembered Self : Uniting the Self. (1997) (0)
Starting a New Journal with Taylor & Francis (2006) (0)
Editorial (2007) (0)
What are public views on using video to deter crime and consumer fraud (2008) (0)
12.5 Positive Psychology (2019) (0)
Transgression Occurrences Measure (2012) (0)
Ambivalence Over Emotional Expressiveness Questionnaire (2020) (0)
Editorial (2006) (0)
The Benefits of Gratitude (2018) (0)
Subject Index Vol. 57, 1999 (1999) (0)
Personal Strivings Measures (2020) (0)
Gratitude as the Foundation for Joy (2021) (0)
Broaden and Build (2020) (0)

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