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Working Papers

2013

1. The Objective Benefits of Subjective Well-Being
   CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE View citations (107)
   Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2013) View citations (91)

2008

2. Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis
   CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb), CEPREMAP View citations (651)
   Also in Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research (2003) View citations (60)
   SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) (2008) View citations (629)
   CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2007) View citations (1)
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2006) View citations (35)
   Post-Print, HAL (2008) View citations (551)
   DELTA Working Papers, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure) (2003)
   PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL (2008) View citations (506)
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2007) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Lags And Leads in Life Satisfaction: a Test of the Baseline Hypothesis, Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (2008) View citations (634) (2008)

2002

3. Re-Examining Adaptation and the Setpoint Model of Happiness: Reactions to Changes in Marital Status
   DELTA Working Papers, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure)
4. Unemployment Alters the Set-Point for Life Satisfaction
   DELTA Working Papers, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure)

Journal Articles

2022

1. Happy Soldiers are Highest Performers
   Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23, (3), 1099-1120 View citations (3)
2. Happy to Know You: An Examination of Subjective Well-Being and Partner Knowledge
   Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23, (4), 1333-1357

2020

3. Effect Size Strengths in Subjective Well-Being Research
   Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2020, 15, (1), 167-185 View citations (6)
4. Measurement Invariance of the Flourishing Scale among a Large Sample of Canadian Adolescents
   IJERPH, 2020, 17, (21), 1-15 View citations (1)

2019

5. Affluence and Subjective Well-Being: Does Income Inequality Moderate their Associations?
   Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2019, 14, (1), 155-170 View citations (12)

2018

6. Advances in subjective well-being research
   Nature Human Behaviour, 2018, 2, (4), 253-260 View citations (158)
7. Changes in Emotions from Childhood to Young Adulthood
   Child Indicators Research, 2018, 11, (2), 541-561 View citations (4)
8. Happiness, income satiation and turning points around the world
   Nature Human Behaviour, 2018, 2, (1), 33-38 View citations (63)

2016

9. What we know about context effects in self-report surveys of well-being: comment on Deaton and Stone
   Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68, (4), 871-876 View citations (1)

2014

10. Leisure and Subjective Well-Being: A Model of Psychological Mechanisms as Mediating Factors
    Journal of Happiness Studies, 2014, 15, (3), 555-578 View citations (83)
11. Review of the Day Reconstruction Method (DRM)
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2014, 116, (1), 255-267 View citations (26)
12. Social capital, ideology, and health in the United States
    Social Science & Medicine, 2014, 105, (C), 30-37 View citations (11)
13. The Metrics of Societal Happiness
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2014, 117, (2), 577-600 View citations (6)

2013

14. Charting the internal landscape: Affect associated with thoughts about major life domains explains life satisfaction
    Judgment and Decision Making, 2013, 8, (5), 603-616
15. Theory and Validity of Life Satisfaction Scales
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2013, 112, (3), 497-527 View citations (219)

2012

16. Purpose, Mood, and Pleasure in Predicting Satisfaction Judgments
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2012, 105, (3), 333-341 View citations (13)

2011

17. Mental health promotion in public health: Perspectives and strategies from positive psychology
    American Journal of Public Health, 2011, 101, (8), e1-e9 View citations (33)
18. Positive Affect and College Success
    Journal of Happiness Studies, 2011, 12, (4), 717-746 View citations (5)

2010

19. New Well-being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flourishing and Positive and Negative Feelings
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2010, 97, (2), 143-156 View citations (291)
20. The Danish Effect: Beginning to Explain High Well-Being in Denmark
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2010, 97, (2), 229-246 View citations (20)

2009

21. A Note on the Dimensionality of Quality of Life Scales: An Illustration with the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS)
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2009, 92, (3), 489-496 View citations (10)
22. Affluence, Feelings of Stress, and Well-being
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2009, 94, (2), 257-271 View citations (11)

2008

23. Lags And Leads in Life Satisfaction: a Test of the Baseline Hypothesis
    Economic Journal, 2008, 118, (529), F222-F243 View citations (634)
    Also in Economic Journal, 2008, 118, (529), F222-F243 (2008) View citations (564)
    See also Working Paper Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis, CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb) (2008) View citations (651) (2008)

2007

24. Financial aspirations, financial success, and overall life satisfaction: who? and how?
    Journal of Happiness Studies, 2007, 8, (4), 467-515 View citations (2)

2006

25. Guidelines for National Indicators of Subjective Well-Being and Ill-Being
    Journal of Happiness Studies, 2006, 7, (4), 397-404 View citations (189)
26. The Subjective Well-Being of the Homeless, and Lessons for Happiness
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2006, 76, (2), 185-205 View citations (27)

2005

27. Integrating The Diverse Definitions of Happiness: A Time-Sequential Framework of Subjective Well-Being
    Journal of Happiness Studies, 2005, 6, (3), 261-300 View citations (52)
28. Most People are Pretty Happy, but There is Cultural Variation: The Inughuit, The Amish, and The Maasai
    Journal of Happiness Studies, 2005, 6, (3), 205-226 View citations (26)
29. The Divergent Meanings of Life Satisfaction: Item Response Modeling of the Satisfaction with Life Scale in Greenland and Norway
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2005, 74, (2), 327-348 View citations (24)

2004

30. Global Judgments of Subjective Well-Being: Situational Variability and Long-Term Stability
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2004, 65, (3), 245-277 View citations (103)

2003

31. Editorial
    Journal of Happiness Studies, 2003, 4, (1), 1-4
32. Experience Sampling: Promises and Pitfalls, Strengths and Weaknesses
    Journal of Happiness Studies, 2003, 4, (1), 5-34 View citations (34)
33. Obituary Michael Argyle 1925–2002
    Journal of Happiness Studies, 2003, 4, (3), 241-241

2002

34. Dispositional Affect and Job Outcomes
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2002, 59, (3), 229-259 View citations (50)
35. Will Money Increase Subjective Well-Being?
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2002, 57, (2), 119-169 View citations (353)

2001

36. Making the Best of a Bad Situation: Satisfaction in the Slums of Calcutta
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2001, 55, (3), 329-352 View citations (62)

2000

37. Editorial
    Journal of Happiness Studies, 2000, 1, (1), 5-8
38. Explaining Differences in Societal Levels of Happiness: Relative Standards, Need Fulfillment, Culture, and Evaluation Theory
    Journal of Happiness Studies, 2000, 1, (1), 41-78 View citations (70)
39. Positivity and the Construction of Life Satisfaction Judgments: Global Happiness is not the Sum of its Parts
    Journal of Happiness Studies, 2000, 1, (2), 159-176 View citations (53)

1997

40. MEASURING QUALITY OF LIFE: ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND SUBJECTIVE INDICATORS
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 1997, 40, (1), 189-216 View citations (383)

1996

41. Book reviews
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 1996, 37, (2), 225-226

1995

42. A value based index for measuring national quality of life
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 1995, 36, (2), 107-127 View citations (53)
43. Book reviews
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 1995, 35, (1), 117-125
44. National differences in reported subjective well-being: Why do they occur?
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 1995, 34, (1), 7-32 View citations (73)
45. The wealth of nations revisited: Income and quality of life
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 1995, 36, (3), 275-286 View citations (64)

1994

46. Assessing subjective well-being: Progress and opportunities
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 1994, 31, (2), 103-157 View citations (279)

1993

47. Subjective well-being among Russian students
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 1993, 28, (3), 225-243 View citations (25)
48. The affective and cognitive context of self-reported measures of subjective well-being
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 1993, 28, (1), 1-20 View citations (71)
49. The relationship between income and subjective well-being: Relative or absolute?
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 1993, 28, (3), 195-223 View citations (276)

1991

50. Response artifacts in the measurement of subjective well-being
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 1991, 24, (1), 35-56 View citations (25)

1985

51. An evaluation of subjective well-being measures
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 1985, 17, (1), 1-17 View citations (40)
52. Factors predicting satisfaction judgments: A comparative examination
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 1985, 16, (2), 157-167 View citations (15)
53. Happiness of the very wealthy
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 1985, 16, (3), 263-274 View citations (35)

Chapters

2016

1. New frontiers: societal measures of subjective well-being for input to policy
   Chapter 3 in Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Happiness and Quality of Life, 2016, pp 35-52