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.

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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/