Kostadin Kushlev

My research focuses on interventions to improve well-being by promoting better digital habits.

Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Research Expertise

Social Psychology
Communication
Applied Psychology
Human-Computer Interaction

About

I am broadly interested in the factors that promote or diminish happiness and well-being. My research program explores how constant connectivity to the Internet impacts people’s relationships and well-being and how we can harness technology to improve well-being and promote positive behavioral change. I am a Vanier Scholar and a Rising Star of the Association for Psychological Science (APS). I have written for *The* *New York Times*, *The Conversation*, and *Psychology Today*, and my work has been covered by other prestigious publications such as *The* *Economist, BBC, NPR, Forbes, Fast Company, Time Magazine, The Wall Stree Journal, National Geographic,* and *The Washington Post*. I have consulted for companies such as Ipsos, Canvas8, and Luce Research. See more at www.kushlev.com

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Lights, cameras (on), action! Camera usage during Zoom classes facilitates student engagement without increasing fatigue.
Technology, Mind, and Behavior
2022
Supplemental Material for Lights, cameras (on), action! Camera usage during Zoom classes facilitates student engagement without increasing fatigue.
Technology, Mind, and Behavior
2022
Subjective Well-Being and Prosociality Around the Globe: Happy People Give More of Their Time and Money to Others
Social Psychological and Personality Science
2021
Digital Life and Well-Being
Unknown Venue
2022
Lights, Cameras (on), Action! Camera Usage During Zoom Classes Facilitates Student Engagement Without Increasing Fatigue
Unknown Venue
2022
Anxiety talking: Does anxiety predict sharing information about COVID-19?
Technology, Mind, and Behavior
2021
Supplemental Material for Anxiety talking: Does anxiety predict sharing information about COVID-19?
Technology, Mind, and Behavior
2021
Long-distance texting: Text messaging is linked with higher relationship satisfaction in long-distance relationships
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
2021
Money does not always buy happiness, but are richer people less happy in their daily lives? It depends on how you analyze income
Unknown Venue
2021
A week during COVID-19: Online social interactions are associated with greater connection and more stress
Computers in Human Behavior Reports
2021
Lights, Cameras (on), Action! Camera Usage During Zoom Classes Facilitates Engagement Without Increasing Fatigue
Unknown Venue
2021
A Week During COVID-19: Online Social Interactions Predict Greater Connection and More Stress
Unknown Venue
2021
Long-distance Texting: Text Messaging Predicts Relationship Satisfaction in Long-distance Relationships
Unknown Venue
2020
Well-Being Science for Teaching and the General Public
Unknown Venue
2020
Can Mental Health Apps Be Effective for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress During a Pandemic?
Unknown Venue
2020
Anxiety Talking: Does Anxiety Predict Sharing Information about COVID-19?
Unknown Venue
2020
Subjective Well-Being and Prosociality Around the Globe: Happy People Give More of Their Time and Money to Others
Unknown Venue
2020
Emphasizing scientific rigor in the development, testing, and implementation of positive psychological interventions
The Journal of Positive Psychology
2020
Happiness Improves Health: Experimental Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial of an Online Positive Psychology Intervention
Unknown Venue
2020
Do happy people care about society’s problems?
The Journal of Positive Psychology
2019
Does Happiness Improve Health? Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial
Psychological Science
2020
The Effects of Smartphones on Well-Being: Theoretical Integration and Research Agenda
Unknown Venue
2020
Subjective Well‐Being and Health Behaviors in 2.5 Million Americans
Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being
2019
Batching smartphone notifications can improve well-being
Computers in Human Behavior
2019
The Social Price of Constant Connectivity: Smartphones Impose Subtle Costs on Well-Being
Current Directions in Psychological Science
2019
The psychologically rich life questionnaire
Journal of Research in Personality
2019
Smartphones distract parents from cultivating feelings of connection when spending time with their children
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
2018
Smartphones reduce smiles between strangers
Computers in Human Behavior
2019
Smartphone use undermines enjoyment of face-to-face social interactions
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
2018
The declining marginal utility of social time for subjective well-being
Journal of Research in Personality
2018
Progressive taxation, income inequality, and happiness.
American Psychologist
2018
Digitally connected, socially disconnected: The effects of relying on technology rather than other people
Computers in Human Behavior
2017
ENHANCE: Design and rationale of a randomized controlled trial for promoting enduring happiness & well-being
Contemporary Clinical Trials
2017
Findings all psychologists should know from the new science on subjective well-being.
Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne
2017
Put the Phone Down
Social Psychological and Personality Science
2017
Too tense for candy crush
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
2017
The Social Costs of Ubiquitous Information: Consuming Information on Mobile Phones Is Associated with Lower Trust
PLOS ONE
2016
"Silence Your Phones"
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2016
Income Reliably Predicts Daily Sadness, but Not Happiness
Social Psychological and Personality Science
2016
Bike sharing station placement leveraging heterogeneous urban open data
Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing - UbiComp '15
2015
Checking email less frequently reduces stress
Computers in Human Behavior
2015
Higher Income Is Associated With Less Daily Sadness but not More Daily Happiness
Social Psychological and Personality Science
2015
Parents Are Slightly Happier Than Nonparents, but Causality Still Cannot Be Inferred
Psychological Science
2013
Shame and the motivation to change the self.
Emotion
2014
The pains and pleasures of parenting: When, why, and how is parenthood associated with more or less well-being?
Psychological Bulletin
2014
In Defense of Parenthood
Psychological Science
2012
Parents Reap What They Sow
Social Psychological and Personality Science
2013
Does affluence impoverish the experience of parenting?
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
2012

Education

University of British Columbia

PhD, Psychology / August, 2015

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Reed College

B.A., Psychology / May, 2008

Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Experience

Georgetown University

Assistant Professor / August, 2018Present

University of Virginia

Research Scientist / August, 2015August, 2018

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