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Sonja Lyubomirsky

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#192

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#76

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Personality Psychology

#12

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#13

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#7

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Social Psychology

#158

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#168

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#90

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Sonja Lyubomirsky's Degrees

PhD Social/Personality Psychology Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Sonja Lyubomirsky is a Russian-born American professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and author of The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want.

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Sonja Lyubomirsky's Published Works

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The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect: Does Happiness Lead to Success? (2005) (6153)
Rethinking Rumination (2008) (3538)
A Measure of Subjective Happiness: Preliminary Reliability and Construct Validation (1999) (3296)
Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change (2005) (2818)
Enhancing well-being and alleviating depressive symptoms with positive psychology interventions: a practice-friendly meta-analysis. (2009) (2420)
Maximizing versus satisficing: happiness is a matter of choice. (2002) (1399)
Effects of self-focused rumination on negative thinking and interpersonal problem solving. (1995) (1135)
How Do Simple Positive Activities Increase Well-Being? (2013) (947)
Why are some people happier than others? The role of cognitive and motivational processes in well-being. (2001) (891)
How to increase and sustain positive emotion: The effects of expressing gratitude and visualizing best possible selves (2006) (840)
The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want (2007) (766)
Self-perpetuating properties of dysphoric rumination. (1993) (644)
Becoming happier takes both a will and a proper way: an experimental longitudinal intervention to boost well-being. (2011) (634)
Effects of ruminative and distracting responses to depressed mood on retrieval of autobiographical memories. (1998) (585)
Why ruminators are poor problem solvers: clues from the phenomenology of dysphoric rumination. (1999) (568)
Health benefits: Meta-analytically determining the impact of well-being on objective health outcomes (2007) (526)
Does Happiness Promote Career Success? (2008) (487)
The costs and benefits of writing, talking, and thinking about life's triumphs and defeats. (2006) (443)
What are the Differences between Happiness and Self-Esteem (2006) (442)
The pains and pleasures of parenting: when, why, and how is parenthood associated with more or less well-being? (2014) (424)
Achieving Sustainable Gains in Happiness: Change Your Actions, not Your Circumstances* (2006) (410)
How Do People Pursue Happiness?: Relating Personality, Happiness-Increasing Strategies, and Well-Being (2006) (371)
Hedonic consequences of social comparison: a contrast of happy and unhappy people. (1997) (367)
A longitudinal experimental study comparing the effectiveness of happiness-enhancing strategies in Anglo Americans and Asian Americans (2011) (294)
Kindness Counts: Prompting Prosocial Behavior in Preadolescents Boosts Peer Acceptance and Well-Being (2012) (282)
Dysphoric Rumination Impairs Concentration on Academic Tasks (2003) (271)
The how of happiness : a new approach to getting the life you want (2008) (260)
Hedonic Adaptation to Positive and Negative Experiences (2010) (255)
Maximizing versus satisficing: happiness is a matter of choice (2002) (246)
Do unto others or treat yourself? The effects of prosocial and self-focused behavior on psychological flourishing. (2016) (232)
The Consequences of Dysphoric Rumination (2008) (232)
What Is the Optimal Way to Deliver a Positive Activity Intervention? The Case of Writing About One’s Best Possible Selves (2013) (213)
Implications of Individual Differences in Subjective Happiness for Perceiving, Interpreting, and Thinking About Life Events (1998) (209)
Can’t Quite Commit: Rumination and Uncertainty (2003) (208)
Pursuing happiness in everyday life: the characteristics and behaviors of online happiness seekers. (2012) (205)
Variety is the spice of happiness: The hedonic adaptation prevention model. (2013) (198)
Culture Matters When Designing a Successful Happiness-Increasing Activity (2013) (194)
Achieving Sustainable New Happiness: Prospects, Practices, and Prescriptions (2012) (193)
In Defense of Parenthood (2013) (190)
Mental Health During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review and Recommendations for Moving Forward (2022) (185)
Persistent pursuit of need-satisfying goals leads to increased happiness: A 6-month experimental longitudinal study (2010) (168)
The Challenge of Staying Happier (2012) (148)
[Development of a Japanese version of the Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS), and examination of its validity and reliability]. (2004) (147)
Is It Possible to Become Happier? (And If So, How?) (2007) (145)
Feasibility and utility of positive psychology exercises for suicidal inpatients. (2014) (145)
Positive activities as protective factors against mental health conditions. (2014) (134)
Delivering happiness: translating positive psychology intervention research for treating major and minor depressive disorders. (2011) (132)
Thinking about rumination: the scholarly contributions and intellectual legacy of Susan Nolen-Hoeksema. (2015) (130)
Does Happiness Promote Career Success? Revisiting the Evidence (2018) (127)
Development of a positive psychology intervention for patients with acute cardiovascular disease (2011) (124)
Changes in attractiveness of elected, rejected, and precluded alternatives: a comparison of happy and unhappy individuals. (1999) (124)
Testing for Measurement Invariance in the Satisfaction with Life Scale: A Comparison of Russians and North Americans (2006) (121)
The how, why, what, when, and who of happiness: Mechanisms underlying the success of positive activity interventions. (2014) (119)
Upregulating the positive affect system in anxiety and depression: Outcomes of a positive activity intervention (2017) (119)
In Defense of Parenthood : Children Are Associated With More Joy Than Misery (2012) (119)
The Promise of Sustainable Happiness (2009) (115)
Tailoring positive psychology interventions to treat depressed individuals. (2011) (114)
Functions of Positive Emotions: Gratitude as a Motivator of Self-Improvement and Positive Change (2017) (114)
‘It’s up to you’: Experimentally manipulated autonomy support for prosocial behavior improves well-being in two cultures over six weeks (2015) (111)
Humble Beginnings: Current Trends, State Perspectives, and Hallmarks of Humility (2013) (99)
An Upward Spiral Between Gratitude and Humility (2014) (93)
What triggers prosocial effort? A positive feedback loop between positive activities, kindness, and well-being (2017) (90)
Happiness and thrift: When (spending) less is (hedonically) more (2011) (89)
Kindness in the blood: A randomized controlled trial of the gene regulatory impact of prosocial behavior (2017) (80)
The relationship between physician humility, physician-patient communication, and patient health. (2016) (75)
Did Social Connection Decline During the First Wave of COVID-19?: The Role of Extraversion (2020) (72)
Responses to hedonically conflicting social comparisons: comparing happy and unhappy people (2001) (70)
Changes in social connection during COVID-19 social distancing: It’s not (household) size that matters, it’s who you’re with (2020) (70)
Current recommendations on the selection of measures for well-being. (2020) (69)
RUMINATIVE RESPONSE STYLES AND DELAY OF SEEKING DIAGNOSIS FOR BREAST CANCER SYMPTOMS (2006) (67)
The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy, but Doesn't, What Shouldn't Make You Happy, but Does (2013) (67)
Everyday Prosociality in the Workplace: The Reinforcing Benefits of Giving, Getting, and Glimpsing (2017) (62)
Beyond Self-Protection (2014) (62)
The Art of Living by Dispositionally Happy People (2003) (59)
A New Measure of Life Satisfaction: The Riverside Life Satisfaction Scale (2019) (58)
Revisiting the Sustainable Happiness Model and Pie Chart: Can Happiness Be Successfully Pursued? (2019) (58)
The cognitive and hedonic costs of dwelling on achievement-related negative experiences: implications for enduring happiness and unhappiness. (2011) (57)
Boosting happiness, buttressing resilience: Results from cognitive and behavioral interventions. (2010) (56)
Recalling Positive Events at Work Makes Employees Feel Happier, Move More, but Interact Less: A 6-Week Randomized Controlled Intervention at a Japanese Workplace (2015) (55)
Human Motives, Happiness, and the Puzzle of Parenthood (2010) (53)
The proximal experience of gratitude (2017) (50)
Parenthood Is Associated With Greater Well-Being for Fathers Than Mothers (2019) (48)
The Challenge of Staying Happier : Testing the Hedonic Adaptation Prevention Model (2012) (48)
State humility: Measurement, conceptual validation, and intrapersonal processes (2017) (48)
Opening up in the classroom: effects of expressive writing on graduate school entrance exam performance. (2011) (47)
Experimental manipulation of extraverted and introverted behavior and its effects on well-being. (2020) (43)
Change your Actions, Not Your Circumstances: An Experimental Test of the Sustainable Happiness Model (2009) (42)
More Happiness for Young People and Less for Mature Adults (2016) (42)
How your bank balance buys happiness: The importance of "cash on hand" to life satisfaction. (2016) (40)
Benefits, Mechanisms, and New Directions for Teaching Gratitude to Children (2014) (38)
Making it last: Combating hedonic adaptation in romantic relationships (2013) (36)
What Triggers Abnormal Eating in Bulimic and Nonbulimic Women?; The Role of Dissociative Experiences, Negative Affect, and Psychopathology (2001) (36)
Comparing the effects of performing and recalling acts of kindness (2019) (35)
The proximal experience of awe (2019) (32)
Is Lasting Change Possible? Lessons from the Hedonic Adaptation Prevention Model (2014) (30)
Making Happiness Last: Using the Hedonic Adaptation Prevention Model to Extend the Success of Positive Interventions (2014) (30)
Whither Happiness? : When, How, and Why Might Positive Activities Undermine Well-Being (2018) (29)
Individual psychopathology relative to reports of unwanted sexual experiences as predictor of a bulimic eating pattern. (1997) (29)
Happiness and memory: affective significance of endowment and contrast. (2009) (29)
Running Head : FINDING HAPPINESS 1 Finding Happiness : Tailoring Positive Activities for Optimal Well-Being Benefits (2012) (28)
Sensing happiness (2012) (26)
Hedonic Consequences of Social Comparison: A Contrast of Happy and Unhappy People (1997) (26)
Gratitude facilitates healthy eating behavior in adolescents and young adults (2019) (26)
A Review and Response to the Early Mental Health and Neurological Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021) (26)
Clustering by Well-Being in Workplace Social Networks: Homophily and Social Contagion (2017) (24)
Gratitude in collectivist and individualist cultures (2020) (23)
Money for Happiness: The Hedonic Benefits of Thrift (2014) (22)
Enhancing Social Connectedness in Anxiety and Depression Through Amplification of Positivity: Preliminary Treatment Outcomes and Process of Change (2020) (21)
Parents Are Slightly Happier Than Nonparents, but Causality Still Cannot Be Inferred (2014) (21)
13 A Construal Approach to Increasing Happiness (2010) (20)
Positive Activity Interventions for Mental Health Conditions (2016) (19)
The Association Between Extraversion and Well-Being is Limited to One Facet. (2019) (19)
Stability and Change in Genetic and Environmental Influences on Well-Being in Response to an Intervention (2016) (18)
The propagation of everyday prosociality in the workplace (2018) (18)
Science Perspectives on Psychological (2014) (17)
Satisfied yet striving: Gratitude fosters life satisfaction and improvement motivation in youth. (2020) (17)
Happiness promotion: Using mindful photography to increase positive emotion and appreciation. (2013) (16)
Russians Inhibit the Expression of Happiness to Strangers: Testing a Display Rule Model (2017) (16)
Increasing well-being in independent and interdependent cultures. (2017) (16)
Reframing the ordinary: Imagining time as scarce increases well-being (2018) (15)
The Rewards of Happiness (2013) (15)
Boosting State Humility via Gratitude, Self-Affirmation, and Awe (2016) (14)
Good for self or good for others? The well-being benefits of kindness in two cultures depend on how the kindness is framed (2019) (13)
Interpersonal Chemistry: What Is It, How Does It Emerge, and How Does It Operate? (2021) (11)
Categorizing the function of positive emotions (2021) (11)
Cognitive and Physiological Measures in Well-Being Science: Limitations and Lessons (2019) (10)
On Studying Positive Emotions (2000) (10)
What Psychological Science Knows About Achieving Happiness (2015) (9)
Toward a Durable Happiness (2008) (8)
Guidelines and standards for the study of death and recalled experiences of death––a multidisciplinary consensus statement and proposed future directions (2022) (7)
Positive psychologists on positive constructs. (2012) (7)
Kindness and cellular aging: A pre-registered experiment testing the effects of prosocial behavior on telomere length and well-being (2020) (7)
The role of actors, targets, and witnesses: Examining gratitude exchanges in a social context (2022) (7)
Examining the social in the prosocial: Episode-level features of social interactions and kind acts predict social connection and well-being. (2023) (7)
Juggling family and career: parents’ pathways to a balanced and happy life (2015) (6)
Does ±3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) induce subjective feelings of social connection in humans? A multilevel meta-analysis (2021) (6)
Empirical Relationships Among Five Types of Well-Being (2020) (6)
Cultural Differences in the Hedonic Rewards of Recalling Kindness: Priming Cultural Identity with Language (2021) (6)
Subjective Wellbeing, Psychology of (2015) (6)
Changes in neural reward processing following Amplification of Positivity treatment for depression and anxiety: Preliminary findings from a randomized waitlist controlled trial. (2021) (5)
The Promise of Fostering Greater Happiness (2016) (5)
The Road to Happiness Is Paved With a Little Gold, a Lot of Reporters, Many E-Mails, Thousands of Frequent Flyer Miles, and 604 Hours of Writing (2019) (5)
Pursuing happiness: The architecture of sustainable change - eScholarship (2005) (5)
The Prospects, Practices, and Prescriptions for the Pursuit of Happiness (2015) (5)
More than Merely Positive: The Immediate Affective and Motivational Consequences of Gratitude (2022) (5)
Men in the Mirror: The Role of Men's Body Shame in Sexual Aggression (2014) (4)
Happiness: Lessons From a New Science – R. Layard (2006) (4)
Positive Activity Interventions to Enhance Well-Being : Looking Through a Social Psychological Lens (2017) (4)
What is the Optimal Way to Give Thanks? Comparing the Effects of Gratitude Expressed Privately, One-to-One via Text, or Publicly on Social Media (2022) (4)
Mental health economics: A prospective study on psychological flourishing and associations with healthcare costs and sickness benefit transfers in Denmark (2021) (4)
Psychology: Holding on to happiness (2011) (3)
Brief well-being assessments, or nothing at all? (2020) (3)
What is Unique About Kindness? Exploring the Proximal Experience of Prosocial Acts Relative to Other Positive Behaviors (2022) (3)
What Are the Most Important Predictors of Subjective Well-Being? Insights From Machine Learning and Linear Regression Approaches on the MIDUS Datasets (2021) (3)
Toward a New Science of Psychedelic Social Psychology: The Effects of MDMA (Ecstasy) on Social Connection (2022) (3)
Are Some Ways of Expressing Gratitude More Beneficial Than Others? Results From a Randomized Controlled Experiment (2022) (3)
Interventions to Modify Psychological Well-Being: Progress, Promises, and an Agenda for Future Research (2023) (2)
What Is the Optimal Way to Deliver a Positive Activity Intervention? The Case of Writing About One’s Best Possible Selves (2012) (2)
CHAPTER 2 Toward a Durable Happiness (2008) (2)
Is happiness a consequence or cause of career success (2018) (2)
Above the Pale Blue Dot: Awe and Humility in Immersive Virtual Environments -- Supplemental Documents (2015) (2)
The genomic impact of kindness to self vs. others: A randomized controlled trial (2022) (2)
Is variety the spice of happiness? More variety is associated with lower efficacy of positive activity interventions in a sample of over 200,000 happiness seekers (2021) (1)
Riverside Life Satisfaction Scale (2020) (1)
Positive Activity Interventions Targeted to Improve Depressive Symptoms (2020) (1)
Experimental effects of social behavior on well-being (2022) (1)
Measuring eudaimonic and non-eudaimonic goods in the pursuit of the good life: The Riverside Eudaimonia Scale and the Rich & Sexy Well-Being Scale (2022) (1)
The Association Between Well-Being and Objectively Measured Versus Self-Reported Smartphone Time (2021) (0)
Running head: STATE HUMILITY CONCEPTUAL VALIDATION 1 State Humility: Measurement, Conceptual Validation, and Intrapersonal Processes Short title: STATE HUMILITY CONCEPTUAL VALIDATION (2016) (0)
Title The challenge of staying happier : Testing the hedonic adaptation prevention model Permalink (2012) (0)
Psychologie positive et adaptation: quelle contribution? (2012) (0)
University of California Well-Being Conference (2017) (0)
Running head: EUDAIMONIC AND NON-EUDAIMONIC GOODS 1 Measuring Eudaimonic and Non-Eudaimonic Goods in the Pursuit of the Good Life: The Riverside Eudaimonia Scale and the Rich & Sexy Well-Being Scale (2021) (0)
Views of Extraversion and Well-Being (2017) (0)
Why Use Positive Activity Interventions to Alleviate Depression ? (2016) (0)
Recalling Positive Events at Work Makes Employees Feel Happier, Move More, but Interact Less: A 6-Week Randomized Controlled Intervention at a Japanese Workplace (2014) (0)
An upward spiral between gratitude and humility: (514472015-254) (2014) (0)
Cultural Differences in the Hedonic Rewards of Recalling Kindness: Priming Cultural Identity with Language (2021) (0)
Commentary on Cultivating Positive Emotions to Optimize Health and Well-Being On Studying Positive Emotions (2001) (0)
The Effects of Social Behavior on Well-Being (2022) (0)
Changes in Neural Reward Processing Following Amplification of Positivity Treatment for Depression and Anxiety: Outcomes From a Randomized Waitlist Controlled Trial (2021) (0)
Running head: FUNCTION OF POSITIVE EMOTIONS 1 Categorizing the Function of Positive Emotions (2021) (0)
Happiness and Self-Esteem 1 Running head : HAPPINESS AND SELF-ESTEEM What Are the Differences Between Happiness and Self-Esteem ? (2005) (0)
Study 2 data files (2017) (0)
Plan Evaluation Questionnaire (2013) (0)
Cross-Sectional Evidence : Do Happy People Engage in Successful Behaviors (2018) (0)
Stability and in Genetic and Environmental Influences on Well-Being in Response to an Intervention. (2016) (0)
A blueprint for exploring international differences in well-being. (2010) (0)
Title Do Unto Others or Treat Yourself ? The Effects of Prosocial and Self-Focused Behavior on Psychological Flourishing Permalink (2016) (0)
INDUCING SOCIABILITY Insights From Well-Being Science (2021) (0)
Perceived Financial Well-Being Measure (2016) (0)
Does Putting Away Your Smartphone Make You Happier? The Effects of Restricting Digital Media and Social Media on Well-Being (2021) (0)
The Science of Happiness (2018) (0)
Life Satisfaction (2021) (0)
The Journal of Positive Psychology Dedicated to furthering research and promoting good practice (2019) (0)
Happiness is more a cause than a consequence of career success (2018) (0)
last: Combating hedonic adaptation in romantic relationships (2013) (0)
Hierarchy of Needs (2019) (0)
CHAPTER 31 Positive Psychology (0)
The Spotlight activity: Development and feasibility test of a naturalistic attention-redirection well-being intervention (2018) (0)
Awe-Humility replication study (2017) (0)
Title What are the differences between happiness and self-esteem ? (0)
Kindness (2019) (0)
Lyubomirsky, Sonja (2018) (0)
Summer books (2011) (0)
FACTORS OF PERSON’S SELF-DETERMINATION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING (2019) (0)

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