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Childhood Biography

Ed Diener In Memoriam American Psychologist

Long Biography

Medium-Length Biography, Outlining Important Contributions

Short Biography

Vita Ed Diener

In Press

Kuppens, P., Realo, A., & Diener, E. (in press). The role of positive and negative emotions in life satisfaction judgment across nations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Policy

Diener, E. (1995). A value based index for measuring national quality of life. Social Indicators Research, 36(2), 107-127.

Diener, E. (2000). Subjective well-being: The science of happiness, and a proposal for a national index. American Psychologist, 55(1), 34-43.

Diener, E. (2005). Guidelines for National Indicators of Subjective Well-Being and Ill-Being. SINET, November 2005, pp. 4-6. (Appearing also in Social Indicators Research, Journal of Happiness Studies: An Interdisciplinary Periodical on Subjective Well-Being, Applied Research in Quality of Life, International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS), and other outlets.)

Diener, E. (2006). Guidelines for National Indicators of Subjective Well-Being and Ill-Being. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 1, 151-157. On-line June 2006. (Appearing also in Social Indicators Research, Journal of Happiness Studies: An Interdisciplinary Periodical on Subjective Well-Being, SINET, and other outlets.)

Diener, E. (2007). Guidelines for National Indicators of Subjective Well-Being and Ill-Being. On-line ISQOLS white paper (http://www.isqols.org). (Also in . Applied Research in Quality of Life, On-line; Social Indicators Research; Journal of Happiness Studies: An Interdisciplinary Periodical on Subjective Well-Being; SINET, and other outlets.)

Diener, E. (2012). Why societies need happiness and national accounts of well-being. In F. M. Prieto (Ed.), Ranking of happiness in Mexico. Puebla: Mexico: Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado Puebla.

Diener, E., Biswas-Diener, R., et al. (2018). Social well-being: Research and policy recommendations. In J. F. Helliwell, R. Layard, & J. Sachs (Eds.), Global Happiness Policy Report: 2018. (Pp. 129-159). Global Happiness Council.

Diener, E., & Diener, C. (1995). The wealth of nations revisited: Income and quality of life. Social Indicators Research, 36(3), 275-286.

Diener, E., & Diener, C. (2011). Monitoring psychosocial prosperity for social change. In R. Biswas-Diener. (Ed.), Positive psychology as social change (pp. 53-71) Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.

Diener, E., Kesebir, P., & Lucas, R. (2008). Benefits of accounts of well-being – For societies and for psychological science. Applied Psychology, 57(s1), 37-53.

Diener, E., Oishi, S., & Lucas, R. E. (2015). National accounts of subjective well-being. American Psychologist, 70(3), 234.

Diener, E., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2004). Beyond money: Toward an economy of well-being. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 5(1), 1-31.

Diener, E., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2006). Case for a national well-being index. Science and Spirit, 17(2), 36-37.

Diener, E., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2018). Beyond money: Progress on an economy of well-being. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(2), 171-175.

Diener, E., & Suh, E. (1997). Measuring quality of life: Economic, social, and subjective indicators. Social Indicators Research, 40(1), 189-216.

Diener, E., Suh, E. M., Kim-Prieto, C., Biswas-Diener, R., & Tay, L. S. (2010) Unhappiness in South Korea: why it is high and what might be done about it. Seoul, Korean Psychological Association.

Diener, E., & Tay, L. (2016). New frontiers: societal measures of subjective well-being for input to policy. In L. Bruni & P.L. Porta (Eds.), Handbook of research methods and applications in happiness and quality of life, (35-52). Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Diener, E., & Tov, W. (2012). National accounts of well-being. In K. C. Land, Michalos, A.C., & Sirgy, M.J. (Eds.), Handbook of social indicators and quality-of-life research (pp. 137-157). New York & London: Springer.

(IN SPANISH) Diener, E. (2012). Why societies need happiness and national accounts of well-being. In F. M. Prieto (Ed.), Ranking happiness in Mexico. Puebla, Mexico: Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado Puebla

Oishi, S., & Diener, E. (2014). Can and should happiness be a policy goal? Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1(1), 195-203.

Pavot, W., & Diener, E. (2004). Findings on subjective well-being: Applications to public policy, clinical interventions, and education. In P. A. Linley & S. Joseph (Eds.), Positive psychology in practice (pp. 679-692). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Culture And Society

Balatsky, G., & Diener, E. (1993). Subjective well-being among Russian students. Social Indicators Research, 28(3), 225-243.

Basabe, N., Paez, D., Valencia, J., Gonzalez, J. L., Rime, B., & Diener, E. (2002). Cultural dimensions, socioeconomic development, climate, and emotional hedonic level. Cognition & Emotion, 16(1), 103-125.

Basabe, N., Paez, D., Valencia, J., Rime, B., Pennebaker, J., Diener, E., & Gonzalez, J. L. (2000). Sociocultural factors predicting subjective experience of emotion: A collective level analysis. Psicothema, 12(1), 55-69.

Bastian, B., Kuppens, P., De Roover, K., & Diener, E. (2014). Is valuing positive emotion associated with life satisfaction? Emotion, 14(4), 639-645.

Biswas-Diener, R., & Diener, E. (2001). Making the best of a bad situation: Satisfaction in the slums of Calcutta. Social Indicators Research, 55(3), 329-352.

Biswas-Diener, R., Diener, E., & Lyubchik, N. (2015). Wellbeing in Bhutan. International Journal of Wellbeing, 5(2), 1-13.

Biswas-Diener, R., Kushlev, K., Su, R., Goodman, F., Kashdan, T., & Diener, E. (2019). Assessing and understanding hospitality: The Brief Hospitality Scale. International Journal of Wellbeing, 9(2).

Biswas-Diener, R., Tay, L., & Diener, E. (2012). Happiness in India. In H. Selin & G. Davey (Eds.),Happiness across cultures: Views of happiness and quality of life in non-western cultures, (pp.125-140). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer

Biswas-Diener, R., Vittersø, J., & Diener, E. (2005). Most people are pretty happy, but there is cultural variation: The Inughuit, the Amish, and the Maasai. Journal of Happiness Studies: An Interdisciplinary Periodical on Subjective Well-Being, 6(3), 205-226.

Biswas-Diener, R., Vitterso, J., & Diener, E. (2010). The Danish effect: Beginning to explore high well-being in Denmark. Social Indicators Research, 97(2), 229-246.

Diener, E., & Diener, M. (1995). Cross-cultural correlates of life satisfaction and self-esteem. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68(4), 653-663.

Diener, E., Diener, M., & Diener, C. (1995). Factors predicting the subjective well-being of nations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69(5), 851-864.

Diener, E., Gohm, C., Suh, E., & Oishi, S. (2000). Similarity of the relations between marital status and subjective well-being across cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 31(4), 419-436.

Diener, E., Napa-Scollon, C. K., Oishi, S., Dzokoto, V., & Suh, E. M. (2000). Positivity and the construction of life satisfaction judgments: Global happiness is not the sum of its parts. Journal of Happiness Studies: An Interdisciplinary Periodical on Subjective Well-Being, 1(2), 159-176.

Diener, E., & Oishi, S. (2004). Are Scandinavians happier than Asians? Issues in comparing nations on subjective well-being. In F. Columbus (Ed.), Asian Economic and Political Issues: Vol. 10 (pp. 1-25). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science.

Diener, E., Oishi, S., & Lucas, R. E. (2003). Personality, culture, and subjective well-being: Emotional and cognitive evaluations of life. Annual Review of Psychology, 54(1), 403-425.

Diener, E., Oishi, S., & Ryan, K. (2013). Universal and cultural differences in the causes and structure of “happiness” – A multilevel review. In C. Keyes (Ed.), Mental well-being: International contributions to the study of positive mental healths. (pp. 153-176) Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.

Diener, E., & Suh, E. (1999). National differences in subjective well-being. In Kahneman, D., Diener, E. & Schwarz, N. (Eds.), Well-being: The foundations of hedonic psychology (pp. 434-450). New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Diener, E., & Suh, E. M. (2000). Measuring subjective well-being to compare the quality of life of cultures. In Diener, E., & Suh, E. M. (Eds.). Culture and subjective well-being (pp. 3-12). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Diener, E., Suh, E. M., Smith, H., & Shao, L. (1995). National differences in reported subjective well-being: Why do they occur?. Social Indicator Research, 34(1), 7-32.

Diener, E., & Tay, L. (2010). Needs and subjective well-being around the world. Submitted for publication.

Diener, E., & Tay, L. (2014) Happiness and human welfare around the world. Invited article submitted to International Journal of Psychology.

Diener, E., & Tay, L. (2015). Subjective well-being and human welfare around the world as reflected in the Gallup World Poll. International Journal of Psychology, 50(2), 135-149.

Diener, E., & Tov, W. (2007). Culture and subjective well-being. In S. Kitayama & D. Cohen (Eds.), Handbook of cultural psychology. (691-713). New York: Guilford.

Diener, E., & Tov, W. (2009). Well-being on planet earth. Psychological Topics, 18, 213-219.

Eid, M., & Diener, E. (2001). Norms for experiencing emotions in different cultures: Inter- and intranational differences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81(5), 869-885.

Fulmer, A., Gelfand, M. J., Kruglanski, A., Kim-Prieto, C., Diener, E., Pierro, A., & Higgins, E. (2010). On “feeling right” in cultural contexts: How person-culture match affects self-esteem and subjective well-being. Psychological Science, 21(11), 1563-1569.

Gohm, C. L., Oishi, S., Darlington, J., & Diener, E. (1998). Culture, parental conflict, parental marital status, and the subjective well-being of young adults. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 60(2), 319-334.

Kuppens, P., Ceulemans, E., Timmerman, M. E., Diener, E., & Kim-Prieto, C. (2006). Universal intracultural and intercultural dimensions of the recalled frequency of emotional experience. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 37(5), 491-515.

Lucas, R. E., Diener, E., Grob, A., Suh, E. M., & Shao, L. (2000). Cross-cultural evidence for the fundamental features of extraversion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79(3), 452-468.

Morrison, M., Tay, L., & Diener, E. (2010). Subjective well-being and national satisfaction: Findings from a worldwide survey. Submitted for Publication.

Morrison, M., Tay, L., & Diener, E. (2011). Subjective well-being and national satisfaction: Findings from a worldwide survey. Psychological Science, 22(2), 166-171.

Oishi, S., & Diener, E. (2001). Goals, culture, and subjective well-being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27(12), 1674-1682.

Oishi, S., & Diener, E. (2001). Re-examining the general positivity model of subjective well-being: The discrepancy between specific and global domain satisfaction. Journal of Personality, 69(4), 641-666.

Oishi, S., & Diener, E. (2014). Residents of poor nations have a greater sense of meaning in life than residents of wealthy nations. Psychological Science, 25(2), 422-430.

Oishi, S., Diener, E., Choi, D. W., Kim-Prieto, C., & Choi, I. (2007). The dynamics of daily events and well-being across cultures: When less is more. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93(4), 685-698.

Oishi, S., Diener, E., Lucas, R. E., & Suh, E. (1999). Cross-cultural variations in predictors of life satisfaction: Perspectives from needs and values. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25(8), 980-990.

Oishi, S., Diener, E., Scollon, C. N., & Biswas-Diener, R. (2004). Cross-situational consistency of affective experiences across cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86(3), 460-472.

Oishi, S., Schimmack, U., Diener, E., Kim-Prieto, C., Scollon, C. N., Choi, D. (2007). The value-congruence model of memory for emotional experiences: An explanation for cultural and individual differences in emotional self-reports. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93(5), 897-905.

Schimmack, U., Oishi, S., & Diener, E. (2002). Cultural influences on the relation between pleasant emotions and unpleasant emotions: Asian dialectic philosophies or individualism-collectivism? Cognition and Emotion, 16(6), 705-719.

Scollon, C. N., Diener, E., Oishi, S, & Biswas-Diener, R. (2004). Emotions across cultures and methods. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 35(3), 304-326.

Scollon, C. N., Diener, E., Oishi, S., & Biswas-Diener, R. (2005). An experience sampling and cross-cultural investigation of the relation between pleasant and unpleasant affect. Cognition and Emotion, 19(1), 27-52.

Suh, E., Diener, E., Oishi, S., & Triandis, H. C. (1998). The shifting basis of life satisfaction judgments across cultures: Emotions versus norms. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(2), 482-493.

Suh, E. M., Diener, E., and Updegraff, J. A. (2008). From culture to priming conditions: Self-construal influences on life satisfaction judgments. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 39(1), 3-15.

Tay, L., Chan, D., & Diener, E. (2014). The metrics of societal happiness. Social Indicators Research, 117(2), 577-600.

Tay, L., Herian, M., & Diener, E. (2014). Detrimental effects of corruption and subjective well-being: Whether, how, and when. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5(7), 751-759. published online 31 March 2014.

Tov, W., & Diener, E. (2008). The well-being of nations: Linking together trust, cooperation, and democracy. In B. A. Sullivan, M. Snyder & J. L. Sullivan (Eds.), Cooperation: The political psychology of effective human interaction (pp. 323-342). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Vittersø, J., Biswas-Diener, R., & Diener, E. (2005). The divergent meanings of life satisfaction: Item response modeling of the satisfaction with life scale in Greenland and Norway. Social Indicators Research, 74(2), 327-348.

Vittersø, J., Røysamb, E. & Diener, E. (2002). The concept of life satisfaction across cultures: exploring its diverse meaning and relation to economic wealth. In E. Gullone & R. A. Cummins (Eds.). The Universality of Subjective Well-Being Indicators. A multi-disciplinary and multi-national perspective. Social Indicators Research Book Series, Volume 16, 81 - 103. The Netherlands, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.

Wirtz, D., Chiu, C., Diener, E., & Oishi, S. (2009). What constitutes a good life? Cultural differences in the role of positive and negative affect in subjective well-being. Journal of Personality, 77(4), 1167-1196.

Reviews

Biswas-Diener, R., Diener, E., & Tamir, M. (2004). The psychology of subjective well-being. Daedalus, 133(2), 18-25.

Diener, E. (1984). Subjective well-being. Psychological Bulletin, 95(3), 542-575.

Diener, E. (2001). Psychology of well-being (Subjective). In N. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (pp. 16451-16454). Oxford: Pergamon.

Diener, E. (2008). Myths in the science of happiness, and directions for future research. In M. Eid & R. J. Larsen, (Eds.). The science of subjective well-being (pp.493-514). New York: Guilford Press

Diener, E. (2012). New findings and future directions for subjective well-being research.American Psychologist, 67(8), 590-597.

Diener, E. (2013). The remarkable changes in the science of subjective well-being. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8(6), 663-666.

Diener, E., & Biswas-Diener, R. (2000). New directions in subjective well-being research: The cutting edge. Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology, 27(1), 21-33.

Diener, E., Heintzelman, S. J., Kushlev, K., Tay, L., Wirtz, D., Lutes, L. D., Oishi, S. (2017). Findings all psychologists should know from the new science on subjective well-being. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne, 58, 87-104.

Diener, E., Kanazawa, S., Suh, E. M., & Oishi, S. (2015). Why people are in a generally good mood. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 19(3), 235-256.

Diener, E., & Larsen, R. J. (1993). The experience of emotional well-being. In M. Lewis & J. M. Haviland (Eds.), Handbook of emotions (pp. 405-415). New York: Guilford.

Diener, E., & Lucas, R. (2000). Subjective emotional well-being. In M. Lewis & J. M. Haviland-Jones (Eds.), Handbook of emotions (2nd ed., pp. 325-337). New York: Guilford.

Diener, E., Lucas, R. E., & Oishi, S. (2005). Subjective well-being: The science of happiness and life satisfaction. In C. R. Snyder & S. J. Lopez (Eds.), Handbook of positive psychology (2nd ed.), (pp. 63-73). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Diener, E., Lucas, R. E., & Oishi, S. (2018). Advances and Open Questions in the Science of Subjective Well-Being . Collabra: Psychology , 4(1), 15 . doi: http://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.115

Diener, E., Lucas, R., & Oishi, S. (2002). Subjective well-being: The science of happiness and life satisfaction. In C. R. Snyder & S. J. Lopez (Eds.), The handbook of positive psychology (pp. 63-73). New York: Oxford University Press.

Diener, E., Oishi, S., & Tay, L. (2018). Advances in subjective well-being research. Nature Human Behavior. 2(4), 253-260. doi:10.1038/s41562-018-0307-6

Diener, E., Sapyta, J. J., & Suh, E. (1998). Subjective well-being is essential to well-being. Psychological Inquiry, 9(1), 33-37.

Diener, E., & Scollon, C. (2014). The what, why, when, and how of teaching the science of subjective well-being. Teaching of Psychology, 41(2), 175-183.

Diener, E., Suh, E. M., Lucas, R. E., & Smith, H. L. (1999). Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress. Psychological Bulletin, 125(2), 276-302.

Diener, E., Suh, E., & Oishi, S. (1997). Recent findings on subjective well-being. Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology, 24(1), 25-41.

Kesebir, P., & Diener, E. (2008). In pursuit of happiness: Empirical answers to philosophical questions. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3(2), 117-125.

Myers, D. G., & Diener, E. (2018). The scientific pursuit of happiness. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(2), 218-225.

Pavot, W., & Diener, E. (2003). Well-being (Including life satisfaction).In Encyclopedia of psychological assessment (Vol. 2, pp. 1097-1101). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Pavot, W., & Diener, E. (2010). Happiness experienced: The science of subjective well-being. In I. Boniwell, & S. David(Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Happiness. In preparation.

Pavot, W, & Diener, E. (2013). Happiness experienced: The science of subjective well-being. In S. David, I. Boniwell, & A.C. Ayers (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of happiness. (pp. 134-151). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Tay, L., Kuykendall, L. & Diener, E. (2013). Life satisfaction and happiness – The bright side of quality of life. In W. Glatzer (Ed.), Global handbook of well-being and quality of life. New York: Springer.

Tov, W. and Diener, E. (2013). Subjective well-being. (pp. 1239-1245). In K. D. Keith (Eds.), Encyclopedia of cross cultural psychology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Measurement And Structure

Diener, E. (1994). Assessing subjective well-being: Progress and opportunities. Social Indicators Research, 31(2), 103-157. (2005 reprinted in Citation classics from Social Indicators Research)

Diener, E., & Emmons, R. A. (1985). The independence of positive and negative affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47(5), 1105-1117.

Diener, E., Emmons, R. A., Larsen, R. J., & Griffin, S. (1985). The satisfaction with life scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 49(1), 71-75.

Diener, E., & Fujita, F. (1995). Methodological pitfalls and solutions in satisfaction research. In A. C. Samli & M. J. Sirgy (Eds.), New dimensions in marketing/quality-of-life research (pp. 27-46). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Diener, E., & Gonzalez, E. (2011, Fall). The validity of life satisfaction measures. Social Indicator Network News. 108, 1-5.

Diener, E., Inglehart, R., Tay, L. (2013). Theory and validity of life satisfaction measures. SocialIndicators Research, 112(3), 497-527

Diener, E., & Iran-Nejad, A. (1986). The relationship in experience between various types of affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50(5), 1031.

Diener, E., Larsen, R. J., Levine, S., & Emmons, R. A. (1985). Intensity and frequency: dimensions underlying positive and negative affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48(5), 1253.

Diener, E., Lucas, R. E., Oishi, S., & Suh, E. M. (2002). Looking up and looking down: Weighting good and bad information in life satisfaction judgments. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 28(4), 437-445.

Diener, E., Napa-Scollon, C. K., Oishi, S., Dzokoto, V., & Suh, E. M. (2000). Positivity and the construction of life satisfaction judgments: Global happiness is not the sum of its parts. Journal of Happiness Studies: An Interdisciplinary Periodical on Subjective Well-Being, 1(2), 159-176.

Diener, E., Oishi, S., & Ryan, K. (2013). Universal and cultural differences in the causes and structure of “happiness” – A multilevel review. In C. Keyes (Ed.), Mental well-being: International contributions to the study of positive mental healths. (pp. 153-176) Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.

Diener, E., Sandvik, E., & Pavot, W. (1991). Happiness is the frequency, not the intensity, of positive versus negative affect. In F. Strack, M. Argyle, & N. Schwarz (Eds.), Subjective well-being: An interdisciplinary perspective (pp. 119-139). New York: Pergamon.

Diener, E., Sandvik, E., Pavot, W., & Gallagher, D. (1991). Response artifacts in the measurement of subjective well-being. Social Indicators Research, 24(1), 35-56.

Diener, E., Scollon, C. N., & Lucas, R. E. (2004). The evolving concept of subjective well-being: The multifaceted nature of happiness. In P. T. Costa & I. C. Siegler (Eds.), Advances in cell aging and gerontology: Vol. 15 (pp. 187-220). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Diener, E., Smith, H., & Fujita, F. (1995). The personality structure of affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69(1), 130-141.

Diener, E., Wirtz, D., Biswas-Diener, R., Tov, W., Kim-Prieto, C., Choi. D., & Oishi, S. (2009). New measures of well-being. Social Indicators Research: Assessing Well-Being, 39, 247-266.

Diener, E., Wirtz, D., Tov, W., Kim-Prieto, C., Choi, DW., Oishi, S., & Biswas-Diener, R. (2010). New well-being measures: Short scales to assess flourishing and positive and negative feelings. Social Indicators Research, 97(2), 143-156.

Eid, M., & Diener, E. (2004). Global judgments of subjective well-being: Situational variability and long-term stability. Social Indicators Research, 65(3), 245-277.

Eid, M., & Diener, E. (2006).Introduction: The need for multimethod measurement in psychology. In M. Eid & E. Diener (Eds.), Handbook of multimethod measurement in psychology (pp. 3-8). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Eid, M., Langeheine, R., & Diener, E. (2003). Comparing typological structures across cultures by multigroup latent class analysis: A primer. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 34(2), 195-210.

Ford, M. T., Jebb, A. T., Tay, L., & Diener, E. (2018). Internet searches for affect‐related terms: An indicator of subjective well‐being and predictor of health outcomes across US states and metro areas. Applied Psychology: Health and Well‐Being. DOI: 10.1111/aphw.12123

Kim-Prieto, C., Diener, E., Tamir, M., Scollon, C. N., & Diener, M. (2005). Integrating the diverse definitions of happiness: A time-sequential framework of subjective well-being. Journal of Happiness Studies: An Interdisciplinary Periodical on Subjective Well-Being, 6(3), 261-300.

Kuppens, P., Realo, A., & Diener, E. (2008). The role of positive and negative emotions in life satisfaction judgment across nations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95(1), 66-75.

Larsen, R. J., & Diener, E. (1985). A multitrait-multimethod examination of affect structure: Hedonic level and emotional intensity. Personality and Individual differences, 6(5), 631-636.

Larsen, R. J., & Diener, E. (1992). Promises and problems with the circumplex model of emotion. In M. S. Clark (Ed.), Review of personality and social psychology, No. 13. Emotion (pp. 25-59). Thousand Oaks, CA, US: Sage Publications, Inc.

Larsen, R. J., Diener, E. D., & Emmons, R. A. (1985). An evaluation of subjective well-being measures. Social Indicators Research, 17(1), 1-17.

Lucas, R. E., Diener, E., & Larsen, R. J. (2003). Measuring positive emotions. In S. J. Lopez & C. R. Snyder (Eds.), Positive psychological assessment: A handbook of models and measures (pp. 201-218). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Lucas, R. E., Diener, E., & Suh, E. (1996). Discriminant validity of well-being measures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71(3), 616-628.

Lucas, R. E., Oishi, S., & Diener, E. (2016). What we know about context effects in self-report surveys of well-being: comment on Deaton and Stone. Oxford Economic Papers, 68(4), 871-876.

Oishi, S., & Diener, E. (2001). Re-examining the general positivity model of subjective well-being: The discrepancy between specific and global domain satisfaction. Journal of Personality, 69(4), 641-666.

Oishi, S., Schimmack, U., Diener, E., Kim-Prieto, C., Scollon, C. N., Choi, D. (2007). The value-congruence model of memory for emotional experiences: An explanation for cultural and individual differences in emotional self-reports. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93(5), 897-905.

Oishi, S., Schimmack, U., Diener, E., & Suh, E. M. (1998). The measurement of values and individualism-collectivism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24(11), 1177-1189.

Pavot, W., & Diener, E. (1993). Review of the Satisfaction with Life Scale. Psychological Assessment, 5(2), 164-172.

Pavot, W., & Diener, E. (1993). The affective and cognitive context of self-reported measures of subjective well-being. Social Indicator Research, 28(1), 1-20.

Pavot, W., & Diener, E. (2008). The satisfaction with life scale and the emerging construct of life satisfaction. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 3(2), 137-152.

Pavot, W., Diener, E. D., Colvin, C. R., & Sandvik, E. (1991). Further validation of the Satisfaction with Life Scale: Evidence for the cross-method convergence of well-being measures. Journal of Personality Assessment, 57(1), 149-161.

Pavot, W., Diener, E., & Suh, E. (1998). The Temporal Satisfaction with Life Scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 70(2), 340-354.

Sandvik, E., Diener, E., & Seidlitz, L. (1993). Subjective well-being: The convergence and stability of self-report and non-self-report measures. Journal of Personality, 61(3), 317-342.

Schimmack, U., Diener, E., & Oishi, S. (2002). Life-satisfaction is a momentary judgment and a stable personality characteristic: The use of chronically accessible and stable sources. Journal of Personality, 70(3), 345-384.

Scollon, C. N., Kim-Prieto, C., & Diener, E. (2003). Experience sampling: Promises and pitfalls, strengths and weaknesses. Journal of Happiness Studies: An Interdisciplinary Periodical on Subjective Well-Being, 4(1), 5-34.

Slocum-Gori, S., Zumbo, B., Michalos, A., & Diener, E. (2009). A note on the dimensionality of quality of life scales: an illustration with the satisfaction with life scale (swls). Social Indicators Research, 92(3), 489-496.

Su, R., Tay, L. and Diener, E. (2014), The Development and Validation of the Comprehensive Inventory of Thriving (CIT) and the Brief Inventory of Thriving (BIT). Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 6(3), 251-279.

Tay, L., Diener, E., Drasgow, F., & Vermunt, J.K. (2011). Multilevel Mixed-Measurement IRT Analysis: An Explication and Application to Self-Reported Emotions Across the World. Organizational Research Methods, 14(1), 177-207.

Vittersø, J., Biswas-Diener, R., & Diener, E. (2005). The divergent meanings of life satisfaction: Item response modeling of the satisfaction with life scale in Greenland and Norway. Social Indicators Research, 74(2), 327-348.

Wiese, C. W., Tay, L., Su, R., & Diener, E. (2018). Measuring thriving across nations: Examining the measurement equivalence of the Comprehensive Inventory of Thriving (CIT) and the Brief Inventory of Thriving (BIT). Applied Psychology: Health and Well‐Being, 10(1), 127-148.

Wirtz, D., Kruger, J., Scollon, C. N., & Diener, E. (2003). What to do on spring break? The role of predicted, on-line, and remembered experience in future choice. Psychological Science, 14(5), 520-524.

Income

Biswas-Diener, R., & Diener, E. (2006). The subjective well-being of the homeless, and lessons for happiness. Social Indicators Research, 76(2), 185- 205.

Diener, E. (2005). Income and happiness (online supplement: The problems and opportunities of children of wealth, www.psychologicalscience.org/observer), APS Observer, 18, 35.

Diener, E., & Biswas-Diener, R. (2002). Will money increase subjective well-being? A literature review and guide to needed research. Social Indicators Research, 57(2), 119-169.

Diener, E., & Diener, C. (1995). The wealth of nations revisited: Income and quality of life. Social Indicators Research, 36(3), 275-286.

Diener, E., Horwitz, J., & Emmons, R. A. (1985). Happiness of the very wealthy. Social Indicators Research, 16(3), 263-274.

Diener, E., Kahneman, D., Tov, W., & Arora, R. (2010). Income’s association with judgments of life versus feelings. In E. Diener, J. Helliwell, & D. Kahneman (Eds.), International dif erences inwell-being. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Diener, E., Kahneman, D., Tov, W., & Arora, R. (2010). Income’s association with judgments of life versus feelings. International differences in well-being, 3-15. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Diener, E., Ng, W., Harter, J., & Arora , R. (2010). Wealth and happiness across the world: Material prosperity predicts life evaluation, whereas psychosocial prosperity predicts positive feeling. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99(1), 52-61.

Diener, E., & Oishi, S. (2000). Money and happiness: Income and subjective well-being across nations. In E. Diener & E. M. Suh (Eds.), Culture and subjective well-being (pp. 185-218). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Diener, E., Sandvik, E., Seidlitz, L., & Diener, M. (1993). The relationship between income and subjective well-being: Relative or absolute? Social Indicators Research, 28(3), 195-223.

Diener, E., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2004). Beyond money: Toward an economy of well-being. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 5(1), 1-31.

Diener, E., Tay, L., & Oishi, S. (2013). Rising Income and the Subjective Well-Being of Nations. Journal Of Personality & Social Psychology, 104(2), 267-276.

Jebb, A. T., Tay, L., Diener, E., & Oishi, S. (2018). Happiness, income satiation and turning points around the world. Nature Human Behavior, 2, 33-38. doi: 10.1038/s41562-017-0277-0

Ng, W., & Diener, E. (2014). What matters to the rich and the poor? Subjective well-being, financial satisfaction, and post-materialistic needs across the world. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107(2), 326-338.

Ng, W., Diener, E., Harter, J., & Arora, R. (2009). Affluence, feelings of stress, and well-being. Social Indicators Research, 94(2), 257-271.

Nickerson, C., Schwarz, N., & Diener, E. (2007). Financial aspirations, financial success, and overall life satisfaction: Who? And how? Journal of Happiness Studies, 8(4), 467-515.

Nickerson, C., Schwarz, N., Diener, E., & Kahneman, D. (2003). Zeroing in on the dark side of the American Dream: A closer look at the negative consequences of the goal for financial success. Psychological Science, 14(6), 531-536.

Oishi. S., Kesebir, S., & Diener, E. (2011). Income inequality and happiness. Psychological Science, 22(9), 1095-1100.

Oishi, S., Schimmack, U., & Diener, E. (2012). Progressive Taxation and the subjective well-being of nations. Psychological Science, 23(1), 86-92

Solberg, E. C., Diener, E., & Robinson, M. (2004). Why are materialists less satisfied? In T. Kasser & A.D. Kanner (Eds.), Psychology and consumer culture: The struggle for a good life in a materialistic world (pp. 29-48). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

Tay, L., Morrison, M., & Diener (2014). Living among the affluent: Boon or bane? Psychological Science, 25(6), 1235-1241.

Vittersø, J., Røysamb, E. & Diener, E. (2002). The concept of life satisfaction across cultures: exploring its diverse meaning and relation to economic wealth. In E. Gullone & R. A. Cummins (Eds.). The Universality of Subjective Well-Being Indicators. A multi-disciplinary and multi-national perspective. Social Indicators Research Book Series, Volume 16, 81 - 103. The Netherlands, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.

Beneficial Outcomes Of Well Being

DeNeve, J-E., Diener, E., Tay, L., & Xuereb, C. (2013). The objective benefits of subjective well-being. In J. F. Helliwell, R. Layard, & J. Sachs (Eds.), World happiness report 2013. Volume 2. (pp. 54-79). New York: UN Sustainable Network Development Solutions Network.

Diener, E. (2016). Happiness is a virtue -- Good for you and good for the world! In R. J. Sternberg, S. /t, Fiske, & D. J. Foss (Eds.), Scientists making a difference: One-hundred eminent behavioral and brain scientists talk about their most important contributions. (pp. 345-348). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Diener, E., & Chan, M. Y. (2011) Happy people live longer: Subjective well-being contributes to health and longevity. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. 3(1), 1-43.

Diener, E., Kanazawa, S., Suh, E. M., & Oishi, S. (2015). Why people are in a generally good mood. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 19(3), 235-256.

Diener, E., Nickerson, C., Lucas, R. E., & Sandvik, E. (2002). Dispositional affect and job outcomes. Social Indicators Research, 59(3), 229-259.

Diener, E., & Tay, L. (2013). The benefits of happiness for successful and healthy living. Report on wellbeing and happiness: Contributions toward the Royal Government of Bhutan’s NDP Report by IEWG members of the well-being and happiness working group.

Diener, E., & Tov, W. (2007). Subjective well-being and peace. Journal of Social Issues, 63(2), 421-440.

Heintzelman, S. J., & Diener, E. (2018). Subjective well-being, social interpretation, and relationship thriving. Journal of Research in Personality, 78, 93-105.

Kansky, J., Allen, J. P., & Diener, E. (2016). Early adolescent affect predicts later life outcomes. Applied Psychology: Health and Well‐Being, 8(2), 192-212.

Kansky, J., & Diener, E. (2017). Benefits of well-being: Health, social relationships, work, and resilience. Journal of Positive Psychology and Wellbeing, 1(2), 129-169.

Kesebir, P., & Diener, E. (2014). A virtuous cycle: The relationship between happiness and virtue. In N. Snow & F. Trivigno (Eds.), The philosophy and psychology of character and happiness. (pp. 287-306). New York: Routledge.

Lucas, R. E., & Diener, E. (2003). The happy worker: Hypotheses about the role of positive affect in worker productivity. In M. R. Barrick & A. M. Ryan (Eds.), Personality and work: Reconsidering the role of personality in organizations (pp. 30-59). San Francisco: Jossey Bass. (The organizational frontiers series)

Luhmann, M., Lucas, R. E., Eid, M., & Diener, E. (2013). The prospective effect of life satisfaction on life events. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4(1), 39-45.

Lyubomirsky, S., King, L., & Diener, E. (2005). The benefits of frequent positive affect: Does happiness lead to success? Psychological Bulletin, 131(6), 803-855.

Nickerson, C., Diener, E., Schwarz, N. (2011). Positive Affect and College Success. Journal of Happiness Studies, 12(4), 717-746.

Oishi, S., Diener, E., & Lucas, R. (2007).The Optimum Level of Well-Being: Can People Be Too Happy? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2(4), 346–360.

Tenney, E. R., Poole, J. M., & Diener, E. (2016). Does positivity enhance work performance?: Why, when, and what we don’t know. Research in Organizational Behavior, 36, 27-46.

Tov, W., Diener, E., Ng, W., Kesebir, P., & Harter, J. (2009). The social and economic context of peace and happiness. In R.S. Wyer, C-y. Chiu, & Y-y. Hong, (Eds.) Understanding culture: Theory, research, and application. New York: Taylor & Francis Group.

General Overviews

Diener, E. (1984). Subjective well-being. Psychological Bulletin, 95(3), 542-575.

Diener, E., Heintzelman, S. J., Kushlev, K., Tay, L., Wirtz, D., Lutes, L. D., Oishi, S. (2017). Findings all psychologists should know from the new science on subjective well-being. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne, 58, 87-104.

Diener, E., Lucas, R., & Oishi, S. (2002). Subjective well-being: The science of happiness and life satisfaction. In C. R. Snyder & S. J. Lopez (Eds.), The handbook of positive psychology (pp. 63-73). New York: Oxford University Press.

Diener, E., Suh, E. M., Lucas, R. E., & Smith, H. L. (1999). Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress. Psychological Bulletin, 125(2), 276-302.

Myers, D. G., & Diener, E. (2018). The scientific pursuit of happiness. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(2), 218-225.

Personality

Diener, E. (1996). Traits can be powerful, but are not enough: Lessons from subjective well-being. Journal of Research in Personality, 30(3), 389-399.

Diener, E. (2000). Introduction to special section on personality development. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences, 78(1), 120-121.

Diener, E., & Larsen, R. J. (1984). Temporal stability and cross-situational consistency of affective, behavioral, and cognitive responses. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47(4), 871-883.

Diener, E., Larsen, R. J., & Emmons, R. (1984). Person X situation interactions: Choice of situations and congruence response models. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47(3), 580-592.

Diener, E., & Lucas, R. (1999). Personality and subjective well-being. In D. Kahneman, E. Diener, & N. Schwarz (Eds.), Well-being: The foundations of hedonic psychology (pp. 213-229). New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Diener, E., Nickerson, C., Lucas, R. E., & Sandvik, E. (2002). Dispositional affect and job outcomes. Social Indicators Research, 59(3), 229-259.

Diener, E., Oishi, S., & Lucas, R. E. (2003). Personality, culture, and subjective well-being: Emotional and cognitive evaluations of life. Annual Review of Psychology, 54(1), 403-425.

Diener, E., Sandvik, E., Pavot, W., & Fujita, F. (1992). Extraversion and subjective well-being in a U.S. national probability sample. Journal of Research in Personality, 26(3), 205-215.

Eid, M., & Diener, E. (1999). Intraindividual variability in affect; Reliability, validity, and personality correlates. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76(4), 662-676.

Emmons, R. A., & Diener, E. (1985). Personality correlates of subjective well-being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 11(1), 89-97.

Emmons, R. A., & Diener. E. (1986). An interactional approach to the study of personality and emotion. Journal of Personality, 54(2), 371-384.

Emmons, R. A., & Diener, E. (1986). Influence of impulsivity and sociability on subjective well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50(6), 1211.

Emmons, R. A., & Diener, E. (1986). Situation selection as a moderator of response consistency and stability. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51(5), 1013-1019.

Emmons, R. A., Diener, E. D., & Larsen, R. J. (1986). Choice and avoidance of everyday situations and affect congruence: Two models of reciprocal interactionism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51(4), 815.

Emmons, R. A., Diener, E., & Larsen, R. J. (1985). Choice of situations and congruence models of interactionism. Personality and Individual Differences, 6(6), 693-702.

Lischetzke, T., Eid, M., & Diener, E. (2012). Perceiving one’s own and others’ feelings around the world: The relations of attention to and clarity of feelings with subjective well-being across nations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 43(8), 1249-1267.

Lucas, R. E., & Diener, E. (2000). Personality and subjective well-being across the life span. In D. L. Molfese and V. J. Molfese (Eds.), Temperament and personality development across the life span (pp. 211-234). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Lucas, R. E., & Diener, E. (2001). Extraversion. In N. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (pp. 5202-5205). Oxford: Pergamon.

Lucas, R. E., & Diener, E. (2001). Understanding extraverts’ enjoyment of social situations: The importance of pleasantness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81(2), 343-356.

Lucas, R. E., & Diener, E. (2021). Personality and subjective well-being. In O. P. John & R. W. Robins (Eds.), Handbook of Personality: Theory and Research (4th ed., pp. 724--742). The Guilford Press.

Lucas, R. E., Diener, E., Grob, A., Suh, E. M., & Shao, L. (2000). Cross-cultural evidence for the fundamental features of extraversion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79(3), 452-468.

Magnus, K., Diener, E., Fujita, F., & Pavot, W. (1993). Extraversion and neuroticism as predictors of objective life events: A longitudinal analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65(5), 1046-1053.

Ng, W., & Diener, E. (2009). Feeling bad? The “power” of positive thinking may not apply to everyone. Journal of Research in Personality, 43(3), 455-463.

Ng, W., & Diener, E. (2009). Personality differences in emotions: Does emotion regulation play a role? Journal of Individual Differences, 30(2), 100-106.

Ng, W., & Diener, E. (2013). Daily use of reappraisal decreases negative emotions toward daily unpleasant events. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 32(5), 530-545.

Oishi, S., Diener, E., Suh, E. M., & Lucas, R. E. (1999). Value as a moderator in subjective well-being. Journal of Personality, 67(1), 157-184.

Pavot, W., Diener, E., & Fujita, F. (1990). Extraversion and happiness. Personality and Individual Differences, 11(12), 1299-1306.

Pavot, W., Fujita, F., & Diener, E. (1997). The relation between self-aspect congruence, personality, and subjective well-being. Personality and Individual Differences, 22(2), 183-191.

Schimmack, U., & Diener, E. (2003). Predictive validity of explicit and implicit self-esteem for subjective well-being. Journal of Research in Personality, 37(2), 100-106.

Schimmack, U., Oishi, S., Diener, E., & Suh, E. (2000). Facets of affective experiences: A framework for investigations of trait affect. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26(6), 655-688.

Scollon, C. N., Diener, E. (2006). Love, work, and changes in extraversion and neuroticism over time. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91(6), 1152-1165.

Theory And Processes

Clark, A. E., Diener, E., Georgellis, Y., & Lucas, R. E. (2008). Lags and leads in life satisfaction: A test of the baseline hypothesis, The Economic Journal, 118(529), F222-F243.

Diener, E. (2014). Stable happiness dies in middle-age: A guide to future research. In K. Sheldon & R. E. Lucas (Eds). Stability of happiness (pp. 299-308). New York: Springer.

Diener, E., & Diener, C. (1996). Most people are happy. Psychological Science, 7(3), 181-185.

Diener, E., Diener, C., Choi, H., & Oishi, S. (2018). Revisiting “Most People Are Happy”—And discovering when they are not. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(2), 166-170.

Diener, E., & Emmons, R. A. (1985). The independence of positive and negative affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47(5), 1105-1117.

Diener, E., Emmons, R. A., Larsen, R. J., & Griffin, S. (1985). The satisfaction with life scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 49(1), 71-75.

Diener, E., & Fujita, F. (1995). Resources, personal strivings, and subjective well-being: A nomothetic and idiographic approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68(5), 926-935.

Diener, E., & Fujita, F. (1997). Social comparisons and subjective well-being. In B. Buunk & F. X. Gibbons (Eds.), Health, coping, and well-being: Perspectives from social comparison theory (pp. 329-357). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Diener, E., Fujita, F., Tay, L., & Biswas-Diener, R. (2012). Purpose, mood, and pleasure in prediction satisfaction judgements. Social Indicators Research, 105(3), 333-341.

Diener, E., Kanazawa, S., Suh, E. M., & Oishi, S. (2015). Why people are in a generally good mood. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 19(3), 235-256.

Diener, E., Larsen, R. J., & Emmons, R. (1984). Person X situation interactions: Choice of situations and congruence response models. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47(3), 580-592.

Diener, E., & Lucas, R. (2000). Explaining differences in societal levels of happiness: Relative standards, need fulfillment, culture, and evaluation theory. Journal of Happiness Studies: An Interdisciplinary Periodical on Subjective Well-Being, 1(1), 41-78.

Diener, E., Lucas, R., & Scollon, C. N. (2006). Beyond the hedonic treadmill: Revising the adaptation theory of well-being. American Psychologist, 61(4), 305-314.

Diener, E., Ng, W., & Tov, W. (2009). Balance in life and declining marginal utility of diverse resources. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 3(4), 277-291.

Emmons, R. A., & Diener, E. (1986). A goal-affect analysis of everyday situational choices. Journal of Research in Personality, 20(3), 309-326.

Emmons, R. A., Diener, E. D., & Larsen, R. J. (1986). Choice and avoidance of everyday situations and affect congruence: Two models of reciprocal interactionism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51(4), 815.

Fujita, F., & Diener, E. (2005). Life satisfaction set-point: Stability and change. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88(1), 158-164.

Lucas, R. E., Clark, A. E., Georgellis, Y., & Diener, E. (2003). Reexamining adaptation and the set point model of happiness: Reactions to changes in marital status. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84(3), 527-539.

Lucas, R. E., Clark, A. E., Georgellis, Y., & Diener, E. (2004). Unemployment alters the set-point for life satisfaction. Psychological Science, 15(1), 8-13.

Ng, W., & Diener, E. (2009). Feeling bad? The “power” of positive thinking may not apply to everyone. Journal of Research in Personality, 43(3), 455-463.

Nickerson, C., Schwarz, N., & Diener, E. (2007). Financial aspirations, financial success, and overall life satisfaction: Who? And how? Journal of Happiness Studies, 8(4), 467-515.

Oishi, S., & Diener, E. (2003). Culture and well-being: The cycle of action, evaluation, and decision. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29(8), 939-949.

Oishi, S., Diener, E., Choi, D. W., Kim-Prieto, C., & Choi, I. (2007). The dynamics of daily events and well-being across cultures: When less is more. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93(4), 685-698.

Oishi, S., Diener, E., & Lucas, R. (2007).The Optimum Level of Well-Being: Can People Be Too Happy? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2(4), 346–360.

Oishi, S., Diener, E., Suh, E. M., & Lucas, R. E. (1999). Value as a moderator in subjective well-being. Journal of Personality, 67(1), 157-184.

Oishi, S., Schimmack, U., & Diener, E. (2001). Pleasures and subjective well-being. European Journal of Personality, 15(2), 153-167.

Pavot, W., Fujita, F., & Diener, E. (1997). The relation between self-aspect congruence, personality, and subjective well-being. Personality and Individual Differences, 22(2), 183-191.

Sandvik, E., Diener, E., & Larsen, R. J. (1985). The opponent process theory and affective reactions. Motivation and Emotion, 9(4), 407-418.

Seidlitz, L., & Diener, E. (1993). Memory for positive versus negative life events: Theories for the differences between happy and unhappy persons. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64(4), 654-664.

Seidlitz, L., & Diener, E. (1998). Sex differences in the recall of affective experiences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(1), 262-271.

Seidlitz, L., Wyer, R. S., & Diener, E. (1997). Cognitive correlates of subjective well-being: The processing of valenced life events by happy and unhappy persons. Journal of Research in Personality, 31(2), 240-256.

Smith, R. H., Diener, E., & Wedell, D. H. (1989). Intrapersonal and social comparison determinants of happiness: A range-frequency analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56(3), 317-325.

Solberg, E. C., Diener, E., Wirtz, D., Lucas, R. E., & Oishi, S. (2002). Wanting, having, and satisfaction: Examining the role of desire discrepancies in satisfaction with income. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83(3), 725-734.

Suh, E., Diener, E., & Fujita, F. (1996). Events and subjective well-being: Only recent events matter. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70(5), 1091-1102.

Tay, L., & Diener, E. (2011). Needs and subjective well-being around the world. Journal of Sersonality and Social Psychology, 101(2), 354.

Thomas, D. L., & Diener, E. (1990). Memory accuracy in the recall of emotions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59(2), 291-297.

Affect Intensity

Diener, E., Colvin, C. R., Pavot, W. G., & Allman, A. (1991). The psychic costs of intense positive affect. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 61(3), 492-503.

Diener, E., Sandvik, E., & Larsen, R. J. (1985). Age and sex effects for emotional intensity. Developmental Psychology, 21(3), 542-546.

Fujita, F., Diener, E., & Sandvik, E. (1991). Gender differences in negative affect and well-being: The case for emotional intensity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61(3), 427-434.

Larsen, R. J., & Diener, E. (1987). Affect intensity as an individual difference characteristic: A review. Journal of Research in Personality, 21(1), 1-39.

Larsen, R. J., Diener, E., & Cropanzano, R. S. (1987). Cognitive operations associated with individual differences in affect intensity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53(4), 767.

Larsen, R. J., Diener, E., & Emmons, R. A. (1986). Affect intensity and reactions to daily life events. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51(4), 803.

Schimmack, U., & Diener, E. (1997) Affect intensity: Separating intensity and frequency in repeatedly measured affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73(6), 1313-1329.

Causes Of Well Being

Biswas-Diener, R., & Diener, E. (2001). Making the best of a bad situation: Satisfaction in the slums of Calcutta. Social Indicators Research, 55(3), 329-352.

Biswas-Diener, R., & Diener, E. (2006). The subjective well-being of the homeless, and lessons for happiness. Social Indicators Research, 76(2), 185- 205.

Diener, E., & Clifton, D. (2002). Life satisfaction and religiosity in broad probability samples. Psychological Inquiry, 13(3), 206-209.

Diener, E., Horwitz, J., & Emmons, R. A. (1985). Happiness of the very wealthy. Social Indicators Research, 16(3), 263-274.

Diener, E., Sandvik, E., Seidlitz, L., & Diener, M. (1993). The relationship between income and subjective well-being: Relative or absolute? Social Indicators Research, 28(3), 195-223.

Diener, E., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2002). Very happy people. Psychological Science, 13(1), 80-83.

Diener, E., Seligman, M. E. P., Choi, H., & Oishi, S. (2018). Happiest people revisited. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(2), 176-184.

Diener, E., Suh, E. M., Kim-Prieto, C., Biswas-Diener, R., & Tay, L. S. (2010) Unhappiness in South Korea: why it is high and what might be done about it. Seoul, Korean Psychological Association.

Diener, E., & Suh, M. E. (1998). Subjective well-being and age: An international analysis. In K.W. Schaie & M.P. Lawton (Eds.) Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics: Vol. 17. Focus on emotion and adult development (pp. 304-324). New York: Springer.

Diener, E., & Tay, L. (2010). Needs and subjective well-being around the world. Submitted for publication.

Diener, E., Tay, L., & Myers, D. G. (2011). The religion paradox: If religion makes people happy, why are so many dropping out? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(6), 1278-1290.

Diener, E., Wolsic, B., & Fujita, F. (1995). Physical attractiveness and subjective well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69(1), 120-129.

Elavsky, S., McAuley, E., Motl, R. W., Konopack, J. K., Marquez, D. X., Hu, L., Jerome, G. J., & Diener, E. (2005). Physical activity enhances long-term quality of life in older adults: Efficacy, esteem, and affective influences. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 30(2), 138-145.

Gohm, C. L., Oishi, S., Darlington, J., & Diener, E. (1998). Culture, parental conflict, parental marital status, and the subjective well-being of young adults. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 60(2), 319-334.

Kim-Prieto, C. & Diener, E. (2009). Religion as a source of variation in the experience of positive and negative emotions. Journal of Positive Psychology, 4(6), 447-460

Lucas, R. E., Clark, A. E., Georgellis, Y., & Diener, E. (2004). Unemployment alters the set-point for life satisfaction. Psychological Science, 15(1), 8-13.

Morrison, M., Tay, L., & Diener, E. (2010). Subjective well-being and national satisfaction: Findings from a worldwide survey. Submitted for Publication.

Morrison, M., Tay, L., & Diener, E. (2011). Subjective well-being and national satisfaction: Findings from a worldwide survey. Psychological Science, 22(2), 166-171.

Morrison, M., Tay, L., Diener, E. (2011). Subjective well-being and national satisfaction: Findings from a worldwide survey. Psychological Science, 22(2), 166-171

Myers, D. G., & Diener, E. (1995). Who is happy?. Psychological Science, 6(1), 10-19.

Newman, D. B., Tay, L., & Diener, E. (2014). Leisure and subjective well-being: A model of psychological mechanisms as mediating factors. Journal of Happiness Studies, 15(3), 555-578.

Oishi, S., & Diener, E. (2001). Goals, culture, and subjective well-being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27(12), 1674-1682.

Oishi, S., Schimmack, U., & Diener, E. (2001). Pleasures and subjective well-being. European Journal of Personality, 15(2), 153-167.

Payne, L., Hawley, L., Ketchum, J. M., Philippus, A., Eagye, C. B., Morey C., Gerber, D., Harrison-Felix, C., & Diener, E. (2018). Psychological well-being in individuals living in the community with traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury, 32(8), 980-985.

Tay, L., Li, M., Myers, D., & Diener, E. (2014). Religiosity and Subjective Well-Being: An International Perspective. In Religion and spirituality across Cultures (pp. 163-175). Springer Netherlands.

Tay, L., Ng, V., Kuykendall, L., & Diener, E. (2014). Demographics and subjective well-being across the world. In P. L. Perrewe’, J. Halbesleben, & C. C. Rosen (Eds.), Research in occupational stress and well-being. Volume 12. Emerald e-book series.

Tov, W., Diener, E., Ng, W., Kesebir, P., & Harter, J. (2009). The social and economic context of peace and happiness. In R.S. Wyer, C-y. Chiu, & Y-y. Hong, (Eds.) Understanding culture: Theory, research, and application. New York: Taylor & Francis Group.

Zuckerman, M., Li, C., & Diener, E. (2018). Religion as an exchange system: The interchangeability of God and government in a provider role. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(8), 1201-1213.

Zuckerman, M., Li, C., & Diener, E. F. (2017). Societal conditions and the gender differences in well-being: Testing a 3-stage model. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43(3), 329-336.

Health

Diener, E., & Chan, M. Y. (2011) Happy people live longer: Subjective well-being contributes to health and longevity. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. 3(1), 1-43.

Diener, E., Pressman, S., Hunter, J., & Delgadillo-Chase, D. (2017). If, why, and when subjective well-being influences health, and future needed research. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 9(2), 133-167.

Diener, E., & Scollon, C. N. (2004). Happiness and health. In N. B. Anderson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior: Vol. 2 (pp. 459-463). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Diener, E., & Tay, L. (2013). The benefits of happiness for successful and healthy living. Report on wellbeing and happiness: Contributions toward the Royal Government of Bhutan’s NDP Report by IEWG members of the well-being and happiness working group.

Ford, M. T., Jebb, A. T., Tay, L., & Diener, E. (2018). Internet searches for affect‐related terms: An indicator of subjective well‐being and predictor of health outcomes across US states and metro areas. Applied Psychology: Health and Well‐Being. DOI: 10.1111/aphw.12123

Herian, M. N., Tay, L., Hamm, J. A., & Diener, E. (2014). Social Capital, Ideology, and Health in the United States. Social Science & Medicine, 105, 30-37.

Lyubomirsky, S., King, L., & Diener, E. (2005). The benefits of frequent positive affect: Does happiness lead to success? Psychological Bulletin, 131(6), 803-855.

Tay, L., Tan K., Diener, E., & Gonzalez, E. (2013). Social relations, health behaviors, and health outcomes: A survey and synthesis. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-being, 5(1), 28-78.

Uchino, B. N., Kent de Grey, R. G., Cronan, S., Smith, T. W., Diener, E., Joel, S., & Bosch, J. (2017). Life satisfaction and inflammation in couples: An actor–partner analysis. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 41, 22-30.

Interventions

Diener, E., & Biswas-Diener, R. (2019). Well-Being Interventions to Improve Societies. In Sachs, J., Layard, R., & Helliwell, Global Happiness Policy Report 2019: Global Happiness Council.

Heintzelman, S. J., Kushlev, K., Lutes, L. D., Wirtz, D., Kanippayoor, J. M., Leitner, D., Oishi, S., & Diener, E. (2019). ENHANCE: Evidence for the Efficacy of a Comprehensive Intervention Program to Promote Subjective Well-Being. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.

Kushlev, K., Heintzelman, S. J., Lutes, L. D., Wirtz, D., Oishi, S., & Diener, E. (2017). ENHANCE: Design and rationale of a randomized controlled trial for promoting enduring happiness and well-being. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 52, 62-74.

Unpublished

Diener, E. (1985). Affect intensity as a temperament characteristic. Unpublished manuscript.

Diener, E., Emmons, R. A., & Sandvisk, E. (1985). The dual nature of happiness: Independence of positive and negative moods. Unpublished manuscript.

Larsen, R. J., Diener, E., & Emmons, R. A. (1984). Affect intensity as a dimension of temperament. Unpublished manuscript.

Weed, N. C., & Diener, E. (1988). Affect intensity and controlled emotional stimuli. Unpublished manuscript.

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