This paper examines whether earning a college or graduate degree in a recession or an economic boom has lasting effects...
Conversation is a fundamental human experience that is necessary to pursue intrapersonal and interpersonal goals across myriad contexts, relationships, and...
We develop grounded theory about how individuals respond to the subjective experience of performing “necessary evils” and how that influences...
We describe a protocol for disclosing unfavorable information—“breaking bad news”—to cancer patients about their illness. Straightforward and practical, the protocol...
In 11 studies, we found that participants typically did not enjoy spending 6 to 15 minutes in a room by...
People are generally unaware of the operation of the system of cognitive mechanisms that ameliorate their experience of negative affect...
Four experiments explored whether 2 uniquely human characteristics—counterfactual thinking (imagining alternatives to the past) and the fundamental drive to create...
Previous studies have shown that people feel lucky in situations that could easily have turned into something worse. The present...
The development and manifestation of gratitude in youth is unclear. We examined the effects of a grateful outlook on subjective...
Distinguishes 2 types of self-blame—behavioral and characterological. Behavioral self-blame is control related, involves attributions to a modifiable source (one's behavior),...