A5033729094- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Mind wandering and attention
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Sleep and related disorders
- Mental Health via Writing
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Consumer Retail Behavior Studies
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
University of Pennsylvania
2019-2024
California University of Pennsylvania
2020
University of California, Berkeley
2014
University of California, San Francisco
2014
Harvard University Press
2010-2012
Harvard University
2009
University of Virginia
2009
The iPhone Hap App reveals that wandering thoughts lead to unhappiness.
What is the relationship between money and well-being? Research distinguishes two forms of well-being: people's feelings during moments life (experienced well-being) evaluation their lives when they pause reflect (evaluative well-being). Drawing on 1,725,994 experience-sampling reports from 33,391 employed US adults, present results show that both experienced evaluative well-being increased linearly with log(income), an equally steep slope for higher earners as lower earners. There was no...
Do larger incomes make people happier? Two authors of the present paper have published contradictory answers. Using dichotomous questions about preceding day, [Kahneman and Deaton, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107 , 16489–16493 (2010)] reported a flattening pattern: happiness increased steadily with log(income) up to threshold then plateaued. experience sampling continuous scale, [Killingsworth, 118 e2016976118 (2021)] linear-log pattern in which average rose consistently log(income). We...
Experiential purchases (money spent on doing) tend to provide more enduring happiness than material having). Although most research comparing these two types of has focused their downstream hedonic consequences, the present investigated differences that occur before consumption. We argue waiting for experiences tends be positive possessions. Four studies demonstrate people derive from anticipation experiential and an experience pleasurable exciting receive a good. found effects in using...
The experiences of mothers and fathers are different in ways that could affect their well-being. Yet few studies have comprehensively examined gender differences parents' In the current research, we investigated such a large representative sample (Study 1a; N = 13,007), community using validated well-being measures 1b; 472), experience sampling study measuring happiness during caregiving activities interactions with children 2; 4,930). Fathers reported greater happiness, subjective...
Two experiments revealed that (i) people can more accurately predict their affective reactions to a future event when they know how neighbor in social network reacted the than about itself and (ii) do not believe this. Undergraduates made accurate predictions 5-minute speed date (n = 25) peer evaluation 88) knew only another undergraduate had these events information themselves. Both participants independent judges mistakenly believed based on would be person it.
This study reports experiments with the newly-released CL-Aff HappyDB dataset, which looks beyond positive emotion in modeling descriptions of happy moments collected through writing prompts. The widespread adoption social media has improved researchers' access to unsolicited expressions and behaviors. However, most approaches analyzing these involve a keyword search focuses on predicting sentiment or emotional content rather than understanding deeper psychological state, such as happiness....
Giant meteorite impacts during Earth's early history likely had significant effects on life. We studied the surface environment and life of a Paleoarchean impactor ~50 to 200× larger than famous K-Pg impactor. The ...Large must have strongly affected habitability Earth. Rocks Archean Eon record at least 16 major impact events, involving bolides 10 km in diameter. These probably severe, albeit temporary, ...