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Happiness researcher and Professor of Social Psychology,
University of British Columbia
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Elizabeth Dunn
Happiness researcher and Professor of Social Psychology, University of British Columbia
Research Expertise
Technology
Time
Happiness
Social Engagement
Publications
Estimating the reproducibility of
psychological science
Science
2015
Spending Money on Others Promotes
Happiness
Science
2008
Prosocial spending and well-being:
Cross-cultural evidence for a
psychological universal.
Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology
2013
Self-Knowledge: Its Limits, Value, and
Potential for Improvement
Annual Review of Psychology
2004
Social Interactions and Well-Being
Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin
2014
If money doesn't make you happy, then you
probably aren't spending it right
Journal of Consumer Psychology
2011
Happiness Runs in a Circular Motion:
Evidence for a Positive Feedback Loop
between Prosocial Spending and Happiness
Journal of Happiness Studies
2011
Mental Health During the First Year of the
COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review and
Recommendations for Moving Forward
Perspectives on Psychological
Science
2022
Prosocial Spending and Happiness
Current Directions in Psychological
Science
2014
In Defense of Parenthood
Psychological Science
2012
Giving Leads to Happiness in Young
Children
PLoS ONE
2012
Smartphone use undermines enjoyment of
face-to-face social interactions
Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology
2018
The relationship between parental racial
attitudes and children’s implicit
prejudice
Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology
2005
Mispredicting Affective and Behavioral
Responses to Racism
Science
2009
"Silence Your Phones"
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference
on Human Factors in Computing
Systems
2016
Checking email less frequently reduces
stress
Computers in Human Behavior
2015
Making a difference matters: Impact
unlocks the emotional benefits of
prosocial spending
Journal of Economic Behavior &
Organization
2013
From wealth to well-being? Money matters,
but less than people think
The Journal of Positive
Psychology
2009
Feeling Good About Giving: The Benefits
(and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable
Behavior
SSRN Electronic Journal
2009
Money Giveth, Money Taketh Away
Psychological Science
2010
Is Efficiency Overrated?
Social Psychological and Personality
Science
2013
Location, Location, Location: The
Misprediction of Satisfaction in Housing
Lotteries
Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin
2003
Buying time promotes happiness
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences
2017
On Emotionally Intelligent Time Travel:
Individual Differences in Affective
Forecasting Ability
Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin
2007
Policy stringency and mental health during
the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal
analysis of data from 15 countries
The Lancet Public Health
2022
Changes in social connection during
COVID-19 social distancing: It’s not
(household) size that matters, it’s who
you’re with
PLOS ONE
2021
Smartphones distract parents from
cultivating feelings of connection when
spending time with their children
Journal of Social and Personal
Relationships
2018
The invisible benefits of exercise.
Health Psychology
2011
It's the Recipient That Counts: Spending
Money on Strong Social Ties Leads to
Greater Happiness than Spending on Weak
Social Ties
PLoS ONE
2011
Does social connection turn good deeds
into good feelings? On the value of
putting the 'social' in prosocial spending
International Journal of Happiness and
Development
2013
Does spending money on others promote
happiness?: A registered replication
report.
Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology
2020
Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee
Satisfaction and Team Performance
PLoS ONE
2013
Misunderstanding the affective
consequences of everyday social
interactions: The hidden benefits of
putting one's best face forward.
Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology
2007
Higher Income Is Associated With Less
Daily Sadness but not More Daily Happiness
Social Psychological and Personality
Science
2015
Did Social Connection Decline During the
First Wave of COVID-19?: The Role of
Extraversion
Collabra: Psychology
2020
When to Fire: Anticipatory Versus
Postevent Reconstrual of Uncontrollable
Events
Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin
2004
Accurate First Impressions Leave a Lasting
Impression
Social Psychological and Personality
Science
2012
Valuing Time Over Money Is Associated With
Greater Happiness
Social Psychological and Personality
Science
2016
Parents Reap What They Sow
Social Psychological and Personality
Science
2013
Forgetting by remembering: Stereotype
inhibition through rehearsal of
alternative aspects of identity
Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology
2003
Digitally connected, socially
disconnected: The effects of relying on
technology rather than other people
Computers in Human Behavior
2017
Affective Regulation of Stereotype
Activation: It’s the (Accessible) Thought
That Counts
Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin
2010
Is spending money on others good for your
heart?
Health Psychology
2016
Your Best Self Helps Reveal Your True Self
Social Psychological and Personality
Science
2011
What neuroimaging and brain localization
can do, cannot do and should not do for
social psychology.
Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology
2003
The Social Price of Constant Connectivity:
Smartphones Impose Subtle Costs on
Well-Being
Current Directions in Psychological
Science
2019
Smartphones reduce smiles between
strangers
Computers in Human Behavior
2019
On emotional innumeracy: Predicted and
actual affective responses to grand-scale
tragedies
Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology
2008
Thinking about time as money decreases
environmental behavior
Organizational Behavior and Human
Decision Processes
2015
On the Costs of Self-interested Economic
Behavior
Journal of Health Psychology
2010
Building a science of spending: Lessons
from the past and directions for the
future
Journal of Consumer Psychology
2014
Are you being served…? An unobtrusive
experiment of affective influences on
helping in a department store
European Journal of Social
Psychology
2007
The Unsung Benefits of Material Things
Social Psychological and Personality
Science
2015
The Gift of Similarity: How Good and Bad
Gifts Influence Relationships
Social Cognition
2008
Both selfishness and selflessness start
with the self: How wealth shapes responses
to charitable appeals
Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology
2017
The War of the Words: How Linguistic
Differences in Reporting Shape Perceptions
of Terrorism
Analyses of Social Issues and Public
Policy
2005
Is the call to abandon p-values the red
herring of the replicability crisis?
Frontiers in Psychology
2015
Give It Up
Social Psychological and Personality
Science
2013
Does volunteering improve well-being?
Comprehensive Results in Social
Psychology
2016
From Tribulations to Appreciation
Social Psychological and Personality
Science
2013
Does affluence impoverish the experience
of parenting?
Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology
2012
Affective Forecasting: A User's Guide to
Emotional Time Travel
Affect in Social Thinking and
Behavior
2012
The Price of Abundance
Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin
2015
A systematic review of the strength of
evidence for the most commonly recommended
happiness strategies in mainstream media
Nature Human Behaviour
2023
Finding the middle ground: Curvilinear
associations between positive affect
variability and daily cortisol profiles.
Emotion
2015
Prosocial spending and buying time: Money
as a tool for increasing subjective
well-being
Advances in Experimental Social
Psychology
2020
Cultural Variation in the Importance of
Expected Enjoyment for Decision Making
Social Cognition
2010
Valuing time over money is associated with
greater social connection
Journal of Social and Personal
Relationships
2018
The Reproducibility Project: A Model of
Large-Scale Collaboration for Empirical
Research on Reproducibility
Implementing Reproducible
Research
2018
Under What Conditions Does Prosocial
Spending Promote Happiness?
Collabra: Psychology
2020
Cousins or conjoined twins: how different
are meaning and happiness in everyday
life?
Comprehensive Results in Social
Psychology
2017
Blind spots in the search for happiness:
Implicit attitudes and nonverbal leakage
predict affective forecasting errors
Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology
2011
Personality Neglect
Psychological Science
2010
The persuasive “power” of stigma?
Organizational Behavior and Human
Decision Processes
2012
On the Excessive Rationality of the
Emotional Imagination: A Two-Systems
Account of Affective Forecasts and
Experiences
Handbook of Imagination and Mental
Simulation
(Not) hearing happiness: Predicting
fluctuations in happy mood from acoustic
cues using machine learning.
Emotion
2020
Valuing time over money predicts happiness
after a major life transition: A
preregistered longitudinal study of
graduating students
Science Advances
2019
Affective Forecasting and Substantial
Self-Knowledge
Emotional Self-Knowledge
2023
Mental Health During the First Year of the
COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review and
Recommendations for Moving Forward
Unknown Venue
2021
The Applicability of Social Skills
Training Research
Social Skills Training for Children and
Youth
2014
Investing in Others: Prosocial Spending
for (Pro)Social Change
Positive Psychology as Social
Change
2010
THE NEUROLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF
CONTRACTING COVID-19
Acta Neuropsychologica
2021
Wealth redistribution promotes happiness
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences
2022
Parents Are Slightly Happier Than
Nonparents, but Causality Still Cannot Be
Inferred
Psychological Science
2013
The Emotional Rewards of Prosocial
Spending Are Robust and Replicable in
Large Samples
Current Directions in Psychological
Science
2022
The UBC State Social Connection Scale:
Factor Structure, Reliability, and
Validity
Social Psychological and Personality
Science
2022
Overcoming barriers to time-saving:
reminders of future busyness encourage
consumers to buy time
Social Influence
2018
Is Life Nasty, Brutish, and Short?
Philosophies of Life and Well-Being
Social Psychological and Personality
Science
2011
How Can People Become Happier? A
Systematic Review of Preregistered
Experiments
Annual Review of Psychology
2024
A Virtual Approach to Promote
Inter-Professional Learning (IPL) Between
Biomedical Science and Medicine in Higher
Education for the Benefit of Patient Care
Frontiers in Public Health
2021
Agentic appeals increase charitable giving
in an affluent sample of donors
PLOS ONE
2018
The Virtue Blind Spot: Do Affective
Forecasting Errors Undermine Virtuous
Behavior?
Social and Personality Psychology
Compass
2011
Seeing wealth as a responsibility improves
attitudes towards taxation
Journal of Economic Behavior &
Organization
2016
Did Social Connection Decline During the
First Wave of COVID-19?: The Role of
Extraversion
Unknown Venue
2020
Education
Harvard University
B.A., Psychology / May, 1999
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United
States of America
University of Virginia
Ph.D., Psychology / May, 2004
Charlottesville, Virginia, United
States of America
Experience
University of British Columbia
Professor / July, 2005 — Present
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