Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress.

E Diener, EM Suh, RE Lucas, HL Smith - Psychological bulletin, 1999 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract W. Wilson's (1967) review of the area of subjective well-being (SWB) advanced
several conclusions regarding those who report high levels of “happiness.” A number of his …

Beyond pleasure and pain.

ET Higgins - American psychologist, 1997 - psycnet.apa.org
People approach pleasure and avoid pain. To discover the true nature of approach–
avoidance motivation, psychologists need to move beyond this hedonic principle to the …

A wonderful life: Experiential consumption and the pursuit of happiness

T Gilovich, A Kumar, L Jampol - Journal of consumer psychology, 2015 - Elsevier
To live in the developed world is to live in a consumerist society. Although the broader forces
that created this society have led to unprecedented material abundance, scholars have …

My intelligence may be more malleable than yours: The revised implicit theories of intelligence (self-theory) scale is a better predictor of achievement, motivation, and …

K De Castella, D Byrne - European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2015 - Springer
The belief that intelligence is malleable has important consequences for achievement and
motivation (Blackwell et al. Child Development, 78, 246-263. 2007; Dweck, 1999; Robins & …

Rationalization is rational

F Cushman - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2020 - cambridge.org
Rationalization occurs when a person has performed an action and then concocts the
beliefs and desires that would have made it rational. Then, people often adjust their own …

A status-enhancement account of overconfidence.

C Anderson, S Brion, DA Moore… - Journal of personality …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
In explaining the prevalence of the overconfident belief that one is better than others, prior
work has focused on the motive to maintain high self-esteem, abetted by biases in attention …

Toward a conceptualization of optimal self-esteem

MH Kernis - Psychological inquiry, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, I present a theoretical perspective on the nature of" optimal" self-esteem. One
of my major goals is to show that optimal and high self-esteem are different from each other …

[图书][B] Happiness and economics: How the economy and institutions affect human well-being

BS Frey, A Stutzer - 2010 - degruyter.com
Curiously, economists, whose discipline has much to do with human well-being, have shied
away from factoring the study of happiness into their work. Happiness, they might say, is …

The psychology of self‐defense: Self‐affirmation theory

DK Sherman, GL Cohen - Advances in experimental social psychology, 2006 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of self-affirmation theory. Self-
affirmation theory asserts that the overall goal of the self-system is to protect an image of its …

[图书][B] The psychology of human values

GR Maio - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
This original and engaging book advocates an unabashedly empirical approach to
understanding human values: abstract ideals that we consider important, such as freedom …