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Laura A. King is affiliated with the University of Missouri in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences, contributing extensively to various subfields including social psychology, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics such as psychological well-being and life satisfaction, social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, death anxiety and social exclusion, personality traits and psychology, optimism, hope, and well-being, as well as religion, spirituality, and psychology.

Recent published papers include the following:

  • The Science of Meaning in Life (2020), Annual Review of Psychology
  • Examining the roles of intuition and gender in magical beliefs (2020), Journal of Research in Personality
  • Lives of significance (and purpose and coherence): subclinical narcissism, meaning in life, and subjective well-being (2020), Heliyon
  • Lay beliefs about meaning in life: Examinations across targets, time, and countries (2020), Journal of Research in Personality
  • Testing cognitive and interpersonal asymmetry vs. symmetry among voters in the 2020 Presidential primaries (2021), Journal of Social and Political Psychology

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Laura A. King include:

  • Jake Womick
  • Hope Rose
  • Christopher A. Sanders
  • Megan Edwards
  • Jordan A. Booker

The scientist has published multiple papers in notable venues, with frequent publications in:

  • The Journal of Positive Psychology
  • Journal of Personality
  • Journal of Research in Personality
  • Emotion
  • UNC Libraries

Best Publications

  • The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect: Does Happiness Lead to Success?

    Sonja Lyubomirsky;Laura King;Ed Diener

  • Why positive psychology is necessary.

    Kennon M. Sheldon;Laura King

  • Linguistic styles: language use as an individual difference.

    James W. Pennebaker;Laura A. King

  • Positive affect and the experience of meaning in life.

    Laura A. King;Joshua A. Hicks;Jennifer L. Krull;Amber K. Del Gaiso

  • Reconsidering happiness: the costs of distinguishing between hedonics and eudaimonia

    Todd B. Kashdan;Robert Biswas-Diener;Laura A. King

  • The Health Benefits of Writing about Life Goals

    Laura A. King

  • Conflict over emotional expression: Psychological and physical correlates.

    Laura A. King;Robert A. Emmons

  • Conflict among personal strivings: immediate and long-term implications for psychological and physical well-being.

    Robert A. Emmons;Laura A. King

  • Creativity and the Five-Factor Model

    Laura A. King;Lori McKee Walker;Sheri J. Broyles

  • The health benefits of writing about intensely positive experiences

    Chad M Burton;Laura A King

  • Life is pretty meaningful.

    Samantha J. Heintzelman;Laura A. King

  • Thine own self: True self-concept accessibility and meaning in life.

    Rebecca J. Schlegel;Joshua A. Hicks;Jamie Arndt;Laura A. King

  • Writing about the Perceived Benefits of Traumatic Events: Implications for Physical Health

    Laura A. King;Kathi N. Miner

  • What makes a life good

    Laura A. King;Christie K. Napa

  • Stories of Life Transition: Subjective Well-Being and Ego Development in Parents of Children with Down Syndrome ☆

    Laura A. King;Christie K. Scollon;Christine Ramsey;Teresa Williams

  • The Science of Meaning in Life.

    Laura A King;Joshua A Hicks

  • Feeling Like You Know Who You Are: Perceived True Self-Knowledge and Meaning in Life

    Rebecca J Schlegel;Joshua A Hicks;Laura A King;Jamie Arndt

  • Two traditions of happiness research, not two distinct types of happiness

    Robert Biswas-Diener;Todd B. Kashdan;Laura A. King

  • The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View

    Laura A. King

  • Authoring a Second Chance in Life: Emotion and Transformational Processing Within Narrative Identity

    Laura A. King;Joshua A. Hicks

  • The Hard Road to the Good Life: The Happy, Mature Person

    Laura A. King

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua A. Hicks
Joshua A. Hicks Texas A&M University
Robert A. Emmons
Robert A. Emmons University of California, Davis
Ed Diener
Ed Diener University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Todd B. Kashdan
Todd B. Kashdan George Mason University
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Sonja Lyubomirsky University of California, Riverside
David C. Cicero
David C. Cicero University of North Texas
Jamie Arndt
Jamie Arndt University of Missouri
James W. Pennebaker
James W. Pennebaker The University of Texas at Austin
John T. Jost
John T. Jost New York University
Phillip K. Wood
Phillip K. Wood University of Missouri

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