Heintzelman, S. J., Mohideen, F., Oishi, S., & King, L.A. (in press). Lay beliefs about meaning in life: Examinations across targets, time, and countries. Journal of Research in Personality.
Heintzelman, S. J., & Kushlev, K. (in press) Emphasizing scientific rigor in the development, testing, and implementation of positive psychological interventions. Journal of Positive Psychology.
Heintzelman, S. J., Kushlev, K., Lutes, L. D., Wirtz, D., Kanippayoor, J. M., Leitner, D., Oishi, S., & Diener, E. (2020). ENHANCE: Evidence for efficacy of a comprehensive intervention program to promote subjective well-being. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 26, 360-383.
Kushlev, K.*, Heintzelman, S. J.*, & Diener, E. (2020). Does happiness improve health? Evidence from a randomized control trial. Psychological Science. *Co-first authors
Joseph, D. L., Chan, M. Y., Heintzelman, S. J., Tay, L., Diener, E., & Scotney, V., (2020). The manipulation of emotion: A meta-analysis of mood induction procedures. Psychological Bulletin, 146, 355-375.
Kushlev, K., Drummond, D., Heintzelman, S. J., Tidwell, J., Diener, E. (2020). Do happy people care about social problems? Journal of Positive Psychology.
Oishi, S., Choi, H., Koo, M., Galinha, I., Ishii, K., Komiya, A., Luhmann, M., Scollon, C., Shin, J., Suh, E. M., Vittersø, J., Heintzelman, S., J., Kushlev, K., Westgate E. C., Buttrick, N., Tucker, J., Ebersole, C. R., Axt, J., Gilbert, E., Ng, B. W., Kurtz, J., & Besser, L. L. (2020). Happiness, meaning, and psychological richness. Affective Science, 1, 107-115.
Heintzelman, S. J. & King, L. A. (2019). Routines and meaning in life. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45, 688-699.
Womick, J., Ward, S. J., Heintzelman, S. J., Woody, B., & King, L. A. (2019). The existential function of right-wing authoritarianism. Journal of Personality.
Heintzelman, S. J., & Diener, E. (2019). Subjective well-being, social interpretation, and relationship thriving. Journal of Research in Personality, 78, 93-105.
Oishi, S., Choi, H., Buttrick, N., Heintzelman, S. J., Kushlev, K., Westgate, E. C., Tucker, J., Eberscole, C. R., Axt, J., Gilbert, E., Ng, B. W., & Besser, L. L. (2020). The psychologically rich life questionnaire. Journal of Research in Personality.
Kushlev, K., Heintzelman, S. J., Oishi, S., & Diener, E. (2018). The declining marginal utility of social time for subjective well-being. Journal of Research in Personality, 74, 124-140. Download
Kushlev, K., & Heintzelman, S. J. (2018). Put the phone down: Testing a complement–interfere model of computer-mediated communication in the context of face-to-face interactions. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9, 702-710. Download
Heintzelman, S. J. (2018). Meaning in life in context. In J. Maddux (Ed.) Subjective Well-Being and Life Satisfaction (pp. 293-310). New York: Routledge.
Heintzelman, S. J. (2018). Eudaimonia in the contemporary science of subjective well-being: Psychological well-being, self-determination, and meaning in life. In E. Diener, S. Oishi, & L. Tay (Eds.), Handbook of Well-Being. Noba Scholar Handbook series: Subjective well-being. Salt Lake City, UT: DEF publishers.
Heintzelman, S. J., & Tay, L. (2018). Subjective well-being: Payoffs of being happy and ways to promote happiness. In D. Dunn (Ed.) Frontiers of Social Psychology: Positive Psychology (pp. 9-28). New York: Routledge.
Oishi, S., & Heintzelman, S. J. (2018). Individual and societal well-being. In K. Deaux and M. Snyder (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology. Oxford University Press.
*Kushlev, K., *Heintzelman, S. J., Lutes, L. D., Wirtz, D., Oishi, S., & Diener, E. (2017). ENHANCE: Design and rationale of a randomized controlled trial for promoting happiness. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 52, 62-74. *Co-first authors Download
Diener, E., Heintzelman, S. J., Kushlev, K., Tay, L., Wirtz, D., Lutes, L. D., Oishi, S. (2017). Findings all psychologists should know from the new science on subjective well-being. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne, 58, 87-104. Download
Buttrick, N. R., Heintzelman, S. J., & Oishi, S. (2017). Inequality and well-being. Current Opinion in Psychology, 18, 15-20. Download
Heintzelman, S. J. (2017). King, Laura A. In V. Zeigler-Hill and T. K. Shakelford (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham.
Heintzelman, S. J., & King, L. A. (2016). Meaning in life and intuition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110, 477-492. Download
King, L. A., Heintzelman, S. J., & Ward, S. J. (2016). Beyond the search for meaning: The Contemporary Science of Meaning in Life. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25, 211-216. Download
Heintzelman, S. J., Trent, J., & King, L. A. (2016). How would the self be remembered? Evidence for posthumous self-verification. Journal of Research in Personality, 61, 1-10.
Fleming, K. A., Heintzelman, S. J., & Bartholow, B. D. (2016). Specifying associations between conscientiousness and executive control: Attention shifting, not inhibition or working memory updating. Journal of Personality, 84, 348-360. Download
Heintzelman, S. J., & King, L. A. (2015). Self-reports of meaning in life matter. American Psychologist, 70, 575-576.
Heintzelman, S. J., Trent, J., & King, L. A. (2015). Revisiting desirable response bias in well-being reports. Journal of Positive Psychology, 10, 167-178. Download
Heintzelman, S. J., & Bacon, P. L. (2015). Relational self-construal moderates the effect of social support on life satisfaction. Personality and Individual Differences, 73, 72-77 Download
Heintzelman, S. J., & King, L. A. (2014). Life is pretty meaningful. American Psychologist, 69, 561-574. Download
Heintzelman, S. J., & King, L. A. (2014). (The feeling of) meaning-as-information. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 18, 153-167. *Society for Personality and Social Psychology Student Publication Award, 2015 Download
Heintzelman, S. J., Trent, J., & King, L. A. (2013). Encounters with objective coherence and the experience of meaning in life. Psychological Science, 24, 991-998. Download
Heintzelman, S. J., & King, L. A. (2013). On knowing more than we can tell: Intuitive processes and the experience of meaning. Journal of Positive Psychology, 6, 471-482. Download
Heintzelman, S. J., Christopher, J., Trent, J., & King, L. A. (2013). Counterfactual thinking about one’s birth enhances well-being judgments. Journal of Positive Psychology, 8, 44-49. Download
Heintzelman, S. J., & King, L. A. (2013). The origins of meaning: Objective reality, the unconscious mind and awareness. In J.A. Hicks and C. Routledge (Eds.) The Experience of Meaning in Life: Classical Perspectives, Emerging Themes, and Controversies (pp. 87-99). New York: Springer Press.
Burton, C. M., Heintzelman, S. J., & King, L. A. (2013). A place for individual differences in what everyone knows about what everyone does: Positive affect, cognitive processes, and Cognitive Experiential Self Theory. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7, 749-761. Download
Heintzelman, S. J., & King, L. A. (2011). The local baby and the global bathwater: Circumscribed goals for the future of the multilevel personality in context model. Psychological Inquiry, 22, 23-25. Download
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