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Overview

Kennon M. Sheldon is affiliated with the University of Missouri in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the broad fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a particular focus on social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and applied psychology. The subfields of their work also include experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as sociology and political science.

Their academic contributions frequently appear in several publication venues, with notable recurring appearances in The Journal of Positive Psychology, Motivation Science, Journal of Research in Personality, Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, and Perception.

The main topics of their research cover:

  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
  • Free Will and Agency
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports

Some of the recent papers authored by Kennon M. Sheldon include:

  • Methods of gratitude expression and their effects upon well-being: Texting may be just as rewarding as and less risky than face-to-face, 2021, The Journal of Positive Psychology
  • Duchenne Smiles as Honest Signals of Chronic Positive Mood, 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • The Glow Still Shows: Effects of Facial Masking on Perceptions of Duchenne Versus Social Smiles, 2021, Perception

In addition to their work, they frequently collaborate with various researchers including Liudmila Titova, Ryan Goffredi, Mike Corcoran, Evgeny Osin, and Sen-Chi Yu.

Best Publications

  • Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change

    Sonja Lyubomirsky;Kennon M. Sheldon;David Schkade

  • Goal striving, need satisfaction, and longitudinal well-being: the self-concordance model.

    Kennon M. Sheldon;Andrew J. Elliot

  • Daily Well-Being: The Role of Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness

    Harry T. Reis;Kennon M. Sheldon;Shelly L. Gable;Joseph Roscoe

  • Basic psychological need satisfaction, need frustration, and need strength across four cultures

    Beiwen Chen;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Wim Beyers;Liesbet Boone

  • What is satisfying about satisfying events? Testing 10 candidate psychological needs.

    Kennon M. Sheldon;Andrew J. Elliot;Youngmee Kim;Tim Kasser

  • Why positive psychology is necessary.

    Kennon M. Sheldon;Laura King

  • Motivating learning, performance, and persistence: the synergistic effects of intrinsic goal contents and autonomy-supportive contexts.

    Maarten Vansteenkiste;Joke Simons;Willy Lens;Kennon M. Sheldon

  • Intrinsic motivation and exercise adherence.

    Richard M. Ryan;Christina M. Frederick;Deborah Lepes;Noel Rubio

  • What Makes for a Good Day? Competence and Autonomy in the Day and in the Person

    Kennon M. Sheldon;Richard Ryan;Harry T. Reis

  • Coherence and congruence: two aspects of personality integration.

    Kennon M. Sheldon;Tim Kasser

  • Trait Self and True Self: Cross-Role Variation in the Big-Five Personality Traits and Its Relations With Psychological Authenticity and Subjective Well-Being

    Kennon M. Sheldon;Richard M. Ryan;Laird J. Rawsthorne;Barbara Ilardi

  • How to increase and sustain positive emotion: The effects of expressing gratitude and visualizing best possible selves

    Kennon M. Sheldon;Sonja Lyubomirsky

  • The Independent Effects of Goal Contents and Motives on Well-Being: It’s Both What You Pursue and Why You Pursue It

    Kennon M. Sheldon;Richard M. Ryan;Edward L. Deci;Tim Kasser

  • Pursuing Personal Goals: Skills Enable Progress, but Not all Progress is Beneficial

    Kennon M. Sheldon;Tim Kasser

  • Not all Personal Goals are Personal: Comparing Autonomous and Controlled Reasons for Goals as Predictors of Effort and Attainment

    Kennon M. Sheldon;Andrew J. Elliot

  • All goals are not created equal: An organismic perspective on the nature of goals and their regulation.

    Richard M. Ryan;Kennon M. Sheldon;Tim Kasser;Edward L. Deci

  • Becoming happier takes both a will and a proper way: an experimental longitudinal intervention to boost well-being.

    Sonja Lyubomirsky;Rene Dickerhoof;Julia K. Boehm;Kennon M. Sheldon

  • The Structure of Goal Contents Across 15 Cultures.

    Frederick M. E. Grouzet;Tim Kasser;Aaron Ahuvia;José Miguel Fernández Dols

  • Self-concordance, goal attainment, and the pursuit of happiness : Can there be an upward spiral?

    Kennon M. Sheldon;Linda Houser-Marko

  • Avoidance achievement motivation: A personal goals analysis.

    Andrew J. Elliot;Kennon M. Sheldon

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Kasser
Tim Kasser Knox College
Richard M. Ryan
Richard M. Ryan Australian Catholic University
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Sonja Lyubomirsky University of California, Riverside
Thomas E. Joiner
Thomas E. Joiner Florida State University
Andrew J. Elliot
Andrew J. Elliot University of Rochester
Edward L. Deci
Edward L. Deci University of Rochester
Jamie Arndt
Jamie Arndt University of Missouri
Maarten Vansteenkiste
Maarten Vansteenkiste Ghent University
Youngmee Kim
Youngmee Kim University of Miami
Athanasios Mouratidis
Athanasios Mouratidis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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