Featured Publications and Documents
Below is a featured list of Ed Diener’s articles, books and documents. To see a fairly complete list of Ed’s publications, please consult his CV posted below. Please note all documents and references on this page are for research purposes only.
Articles
Diener, E. (1984). Subjective well-being. Psychological Bulletin, 95(3), 542–575.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.95.3.542
Diener, E., & Diener, M. (1995). Cross-cultural correlates of life satisfaction and self-esteem. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68(4), 653–663.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.68.4.653
Diener, E., & Diener, C. (1996). Most people are happy. Psychological Science, 7(3), 181-185.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.1996.tb00354.x
Diener, E., Sapyta, J., & Suh, E. (1998). Subjective well-being is essential to well-being. Psychological Inquiry, 9(1), 33-37.
https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327965pli0901_3
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.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.125.2.276
Eid, M., & Diener, E. (1999). Intraindividual variability in affect: Reliability, validity, and personality correlates. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76(4), 662-676.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.76.4.662
Lyubomirsky, S., King, L., & Diener, E. (2005). The benefits of frequent positive affect: Does happiness lead to success? Psychological Bulletin, 131(6), 803-855.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.131.6.803
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(2), 87-104.
https://doi.org/10.1037/cap0000063
Kansky, J., & Diener, E. (2017). Benefits of well-being: Health, social relationships, work, and resilience. Journal of Positive Psychology and Well-Being, 1(2), 129-169.
Diener, E., Diener, C., Choi, H., & Oishi, S. (2018). Most people are happy revisited – And discovering when they are not. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(2), 166-170.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691618765111
Diener, E., Lucas, R. E., & Oishi, S. (2018). Advances and open questions in the science of subjective well-being. Collabra: Psychology, 4(1), 15, 1-49.
https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.115
Diener, E., Oishi, S., & Tay, L. (2018). Advances in subjective well-being research. Nature: Human Behavior, 2(4), 253–260.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0307-6
Diener, E., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2018). Beyond money revisited: Progress on national accounts of well- being for policy. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(2), 171-175.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691616689467
Diener, E., & Seligman, M. E. P., Choi, H., & Oishi, S. (2018). Happiest people revisited: A worldwide examination. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(2), 176-184.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691617697077
Jebb, A. T., Tay, L., Diener, E., & Oishi, S. (2018). Happiness, income satiation and turning points around the world. Nature Human Behavior, 2(1), 33-38.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0277-0
Kushlev, K., Drummond, D. M., Heintzelman, S. J., & Diener, E. (2020). Do happy people care about society’s problems? Journal of Positive Psychology, 15(4), 467-477.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2019.1639797
Li, C., Zuckerman, M., & Diener, E. (2021). Culture moderates the relation between gender inequality and well-being. Psychological Science, 32(6), 823-835.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620972492
Books
Kahneman, D., Diener, E., & Schwarz, N. (Eds.). (1999). Well-being: The foundations of hedonic psychology. Russell Sage Foundation.
Eid, M., & Diener, E. (Eds.). (2006). Handbook of multimethod measurement in psychology. American Psychological Association.
Diener, E., & Biswas-Diener, R. (2008). Happiness: Unlocking the mysteries of psychological wealth. Wiley/Blackwell.
Diener, E., Kahneman, D., & Helliwell, J.F. (Eds.). (2010). International differences in well-being. Oxford University Press.
Diener, E. Oishi, & S. & Tay (Eds.). (2018), Handbook of Well-being. DEF Publishers. https://www.nobascholar.com/