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Professor Lyubomirsky’s research interests include
well-being, happiness, self-regulation, and talents. She
is widely published, with well over 100 articles and
chapters and four books, The How of Happiness (Penguin,
2007), The Myths of Happiness (Penguin, 2013), The How of
Happiness Workbook (Penguin, 2008), and Designing Your
Life (Avery, 2016). Professor Lyubomirsky has received
numerous awards for her work, including the American
Psychological Association’s Positive Psychology Prize
(2015), the American Psychological Association’s
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (2009), and a
Guggenheim Fellowship (2008-2009). She is a Fellow of the
Association for Psychological Science and the American
Psychological Association.
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Sonja Lyubomirsky
Distinguished Professor, University of California, Riverside
Research Expertise
well-being
History and Philosophy of Science
Sociology and Political Science
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Social Psychology
Psychiatry and Mental health
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource
Management
Applied Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Anthropology
Cultural Studies
Complementary and alternative medicine
Biological Psychiatry
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Marketing
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
Endocrinology
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Epidemiology
Developmental Neuroscience
Gender Studies
Education
Cognitive Neuroscience
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Geography, Planning and Development
Building and Construction
About
Professor Lyubomirsky’s research interests
include well-being, happiness,
self-regulation, and talents. She is widely
published, with well over 100 articles and
chapters and four books, The How of Happiness
(Penguin, 2007), The Myths of Happiness
(Penguin, 2013), The How of Happiness Workbook
(Penguin, 2008), and Designing Your Life
(Avery, 2016). Professor Lyubomirsky has
received numerous awards for her work,
including the American Psychological
Association’s Positive Psychology Prize
(2015), the American Psychological
Association’s Distinguished Scientific
Contribution Award (2009), and a Guggenheim
Fellowship (2008-2009). She is a Fellow of the
Association for Psychological Science and the
American Psychological Association.
Legacy Map
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The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect:
Does Happiness Lead to Success?
Psychological Bulletin
2005
Rethinking Rumination
Perspectives on Psychological
Science
2008
Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of
Sustainable Change
Review of General Psychology
2005
Enhancing well-being and alleviating
depressive symptoms with positive
psychology interventions: a
practice-friendly meta-analysis
Journal of Clinical Psychology
2009
The State of the Art in Happiness Advice;
Can We Escape the Dodo-Verdict?
Journal of Happiness Studies
2010
Maximizing versus satisficing: Happiness
is a matter of choice.
Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology
2002
Effects of self-focused rumination on
negative thinking and interpersonal
problem solving.
Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology
1995
Why are some people happier than others?
The role of cognitive and motivational
processes in well-being.
American Psychologist
2001
How Do Simple Positive Activities Increase
Well-Being?
Current Directions in Psychological
Science
2013
How to increase and sustain positive
emotion: The effects of expressing
gratitude and visualizing best possible
selves
The Journal of Positive
Psychology
2006
Self-perpetuating properties of dysphoric
rumination.
Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology
1993
Becoming happier takes both a will and a
proper way: An experimental longitudinal
intervention to boost well-being.
Emotion
2011
Does Happiness Promote Career Success?
Journal of Career Assessment
2008
Effects of ruminative and distracting
responses to depressed mood on retrieval
of autobiographical memories.
Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology
1998
Why ruminators are poor problem solvers:
Clues from the phenomenology of dysphoric
rumination.
Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology
1999
Health benefits: Meta-analytically
determining the impact of well-being on
objective health outcomes
Health Psychology Review
2007
What are the Differences between Happiness
and Self-Esteem
Social Indicators Research
2005
The costs and benefits of writing,
talking, and thinking about life's
triumphs and defeats.
Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology
2006
Hedonic consequences of social comparison:
A contrast of happy and unhappy people.
Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology
1997
Achieving Sustainable Gains in Happiness:
Change Your Actions, not Your
Circumstances*
Journal of Happiness Studies
2006
How Do People Pursue Happiness?: Relating
Personality, Happiness-Increasing
Strategies, and Well-Being
Journal of Happiness Studies
2006
The pains and pleasures of parenting:
When, why, and how is parenthood
associated with more or less well-being?
Psychological Bulletin
2014
Examen de los estudios sobre la migración,
la felicidad y el bienestar
Informe Sobre las Migraciones en el
Mundo 2013
2013
Hedonic Adaptation to Positive and
Negative Experiences
Oxford Handbooks Online
2010
Kindness Counts: Prompting Prosocial
Behavior in Preadolescents Boosts Peer
Acceptance and Well-Being
PLoS ONE
2012
A longitudinal experimental study
comparing the effectiveness of
happiness-enhancing strategies in Anglo
Americans and Asian Americans
Cognition and Emotion
2011
In Defense of Parenthood
Psychological Science
2012
Do unto others or treat yourself? The
effects of prosocial and self-focused
behavior on psychological flourishing.
Emotion
2016
The Consequences of Dysphoric Rumination
Depressive Rumination
What Is the Optimal Way to Deliver a
Positive Activity Intervention? The Case
of Writing About One’s Best Possible
Selves
Journal of Happiness Studies
2012
Achieving Sustainable New Happiness:
Prospects, Practices, and Prescriptions
Positive Psychology in Practice
2004
Can’t Quite Commit: Rumination and
Uncertainty
Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin
2003
The How, Why, What, When, and Who of
Happiness
Positive Emotion
2014
Variety is the Spice of Happiness: The
Hedonic Adaptation Prevention Model
Oxford Handbooks Online
2013
Culture Matters When Designing a
Successful Happiness-Increasing Activity
Journal of Cross-Cultural
Psychology
2013
Sex-Differences in the Evolution of Life
Expectancy and Health in Older Age
Sex and Longevity: Sexuality, Gender,
Reproduction, Parenthood
2001
The Challenge of Staying Happier
Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin
2012
Changes in attractiveness of elected,
rejected, and precluded alternatives: A
comparison of happy and unhappy
individuals.
Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology
1999
Pursuing happiness in everyday life: The
characteristics and behaviors of online
happiness seekers.
Emotion
2012
Persistent pursuit of need-satisfying
goals leads to increased happiness: A
6-month experimental longitudinal study
Motivation and Emotion
2009
Delivering Happiness: Translating Positive
Psychology Intervention Research for
Treating Major and Minor Depressive
Disorders
The Journal of Alternative and
Complementary Medicine
2011
Is It Possible to Become Happier? (And If
So, How?)
Social and Personality Psychology
Compass
2007
The Mythical Myths of Happiness
Journal of Happiness Studies
2014
Does Happiness Promote Career Success?
Revisiting the Evidence
Journal of Career Assessment
2018
Positive activities as protective factors
against mental health conditions.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
2014
The Promise of Sustainable Happiness
The Oxford Handbook of Positive
Psychology
2009
Thinking About Rumination: The Scholarly
Contributions and Intellectual Legacy of
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
Annual Review of Clinical
Psychology
2015
Functions of Positive Emotions: Gratitude
as a Motivator of Self-Improvement and
Positive Change
Emotion Review
2017
Feasibility and utility of positive
psychology exercises for suicidal
inpatients
General Hospital Psychiatry
2014
Humble Beginnings: Current Trends, State
Perspectives, and Hallmarks of Humility
Social and Personality Psychology
Compass
2013
An Upward Spiral Between Gratitude and
Humility
Social Psychological and Personality
Science
2014
Upregulating the positive affect system in
anxiety and depression: Outcomes of a
positive activity intervention
Depression and Anxiety
2017
Development of a Positive Psychology
Intervention for Patients with Acute
Cardiovascular Disease
Heart International
2011
Testing for Measurement Invariance in the
Satisfaction with Life Scale: A Comparison
of Russians and North Americans
Social Indicators Research
2006
Validity and Reliability of the Japanese
Version of the Emotional Intelligence
Scale among College Students and
Psychiatric Outpatients
Psychological Reports
2001
‘It’s up to you’: Experimentally
manipulated autonomy support for prosocial
behavior improves well-being in two
cultures over six weeks
The Journal of Positive
Psychology
2014
What triggers prosocial effort? A positive
feedback loop between positive activities,
kindness, and well-being
The Journal of Positive
Psychology
2016
Happiness and thrift: When (spending) less
is (hedonically) more
Journal of Consumer Psychology
2011
Beyond Self-Protection
Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin
2014
Everyday prosociality in the workplace:
The reinforcing benefits of giving,
getting, and glimpsing.
Emotion
2018
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
The relationship between physician
humility, physician–patient communication,
and patient health
Patient Education and Counseling
2016
A New Measure of Life Satisfaction: The
Riverside Life Satisfaction Scale
Journal of Personality Assessment
2018
The Art of Living by Dispositionally Happy
People
Journal of Happiness Studies
2003
Und jetzt? Sie haben es in der Hand
Alles, was Sie über Media wissen
wollen
2018
Kindness in the blood: A randomized
controlled trial of the gene regulatory
impact of prosocial behavior
Psychoneuroendocrinology
2017
Responses to hedonically conflicting
social comparisons: comparing happy and
unhappy people
European Journal of Social
Psychology
2001
Current recommendations on the selection
of measures for well-being
Preventive Medicine
2020
Did Social Connection Decline During the
First Wave of COVID-19?: The Role of
Extraversion
Collabra: Psychology
2020
The cognitive and hedonic costs of
dwelling on achievement-related negative
experiences: Implications for enduring
happiness and unhappiness.
Emotion
2011
The proximal experience of gratitude
PLOS ONE
2017
Ruminative Response Styles and Delay of
Seeking Diagnosis for Breast Cancer
Symptoms
Journal of Social and Clinical
Psychology
2006
Opening up in the classroom: Effects of
expressive writing on graduate school
entrance exam performance.
Emotion
2011
State humility: Measurement, conceptual
validation, and intrapersonal processes
Self and Identity
2017
Making it last: Combating hedonic
adaptation in romantic relationships
The Journal of Positive
Psychology
2013
Parenthood Is Associated With Greater
Well-Being for Fathers Than Mothers
Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin
2019
Human Motives, Happiness, and the Puzzle
of Parenthood
Perspectives on Psychological
Science
2010
How your bank balance buys happiness: The
importance of “cash on hand” to life
satisfaction.
Emotion
2016
Recalling Positive Events at Work Makes
Employees Feel Happier, Move More, but
Interact Less: A 6-Week Randomized
Controlled Intervention at a Japanese
Workplace
Journal of Happiness Studies
2014
More Happiness for Young People and Less
for Mature Adults
Social Psychological and Personality
Science
2015
Experimental manipulation of extraverted
and introverted behavior and its effects
on well-being.
Journal of Experimental Psychology:
General
2020
What Triggers Abnormal Eating in Bulimic
and Nonbulimic Women?;
The Role of Dissociative Experiences,
Negative Affect, and Psychopathology
Psychology of Women Quarterly
2001
Psychology: Holding on to happiness
Nature
2011
Benefits, Mechanisms, and New Directions
for Teaching Gratitude to Children
School Psychology Review
2014
Change your Actions, Not Your
Circumstances: An Experimental Test of the
Sustainable Happiness Model
Happiness, Economics and Politics
Making Happiness Last:Using the Hedonic Adaptation Prevention
Model to Extend the Success of Positive
Interventions
The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of
Positive Psychological
Interventions
2014
Individual psychopathology relative to
reports of unwanted sexual experiences as
predictor of a bulimic eating pattern
International Journal of Eating
Disorders
1997
COMMENTARIES on "Does the Positive
Psychology Movement Have Legs?"
Psychological Inquiry
2003
Is Lasting Change Possible? Lessons from
the Hedonic Adaptation Prevention Model
Stability of Happiness
2014
Examining the Social in the Prosocial:
Episode-Level Features of Social
Interactions and Kind Acts Predict Social
Connection and Well-Being
Unknown Venue
2022
Are Some Ways of Expressing Gratitude More
Beneficial Than Others? Results From a
Randomized Controlled Experiment
Affective Science
2022
Experimental effects of social behavior on
well-being
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
2022
What is the Optimal Way to Give Thanks?
Comparing the Effects of Gratitude
Expressed Privately, One-to-One via Text,
or Publicly on Social Media
Affective Science
2022
What is Unique About Kindness? Exploring
the Proximal Experience of Prosocial Acts
Relative to Other Positive Behaviors
Affective Science
2022
Immediate and Enduring Effects of Deep and
Shallow Conversations on Feelings of
Closeness in Healthy Adults
Unknown Venue
2022
Toward a New Science of Psychedelic Social
Psychology: The Effects of MDMA (Ecstasy)
on Social Connection
Perspectives on Psychological
Science
2022
More than Merely Positive: The Immediate
Affective and Motivational Consequences of
Gratitude
Sustainability
2022
Kindness interventions for early-stage
breast cancer survivors: An online, pilot
randomized controlled trial
The Journal of Positive
Psychology
2022
Mental Health During the First Year of the
COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review and
Recommendations for Moving Forward
Perspectives on Psychological
Science
2022
The role of actors, targets, and
witnesses: Examining gratitude exchanges
in a social context
The Journal of Positive
Psychology
2022
Mental health economics: A prospective
study on psychological flourishing and
associations with healthcare costs and
sickness benefit transfers in Denmark
Mental Health & Prevention
2021
What Are the Most Important Predictors of
Subjective Well-Being? Insights From
Machine Learning and Linear Regression
Approaches on the MIDUS Datasets
Unknown Venue
2021
Does Putting Away Your Smartphone Make You
Happier? The Effects of Restricting
Digital Media and Social Media on
Well-Being
Unknown Venue
2021
The Association Between Well-Being and
Objectively Measured Versus Self-Reported
Smartphone Time
Unknown Venue
2021
Changes in neural reward processing
following Amplification of Positivity
treatment for depression and anxiety:
Preliminary findings from a randomized
waitlist controlled trial
Behaviour Research and Therapy
2021
Revisiting the Sustainable Happiness Model
and Pie Chart: Can Happiness Be
Successfully Pursued?
The Journal of Positive
Psychology
2019
Cultural Differences in the Hedonic
Rewards of Recalling Kindness: Priming
Cultural Identity with Language
Affective Science
2021
Mental Health During the First Year of the
COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review and
Recommendations for Moving Forward
Unknown Venue
2021
Kindness and cellular aging: A
pre-registered experiment testing the
effects of prosocial behavior on telomere
length and well-being
Brain, Behavior, & Immunity -
Health
2021
Comparing the effects of performing and
recalling acts of kindness
The Journal of Positive
Psychology
2019
Education
Stanford University
PhD, Social Psychology / 1994
Stanford, California, United States
of America
Harvard University
A.B., Psychology / 1989
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United
States of America
Experience
University of California, Riverside
Distinguished Professor
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