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Overview

Louis Tay is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States and has established a research profile primarily within the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences. Their scholarly output prominently covers areas including Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, as well as Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's research topics demonstrate a focus on Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Mental Health Research Topics, Personality Traits and Psychology, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Psychometric Methodologies and Testing, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, and Cultural Differences and Values.

Frequent collaborators in Louis Tay's works include Sang Eun Woo, Louis Hickman, Vincent Ng, Sharath Chandra Guntuku, and Lyle Ungar.

Publications have appeared repeatedly in notable academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets are The Journal of Positive Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, PsycTESTS Dataset, Frontiers in Psychology, and Organizational Research Methods.

Recent representative papers authored or coauthored by Louis Tay include:

  • A Review of Key Likert Scale Development Advances: 1995-2019 (2021) in Frontiers in Psychology
  • Text Preprocessing for Text Mining in Organizational Research: Review and Recommendations (2020) in Organizational Research Methods
  • Subjective Well-Being Around the World: Trends and Predictors Across the Life Span (2020) in Psychological Science
  • Current recommendations on the selection of measures for well-being (2020) in Preventive Medicine
  • Life Satisfaction and Subsequent Physical, Behavioral, and Psychosocial Health in Older Adults (2021) in Milbank Quarterly

The scientist's work encompasses a variety of methodologies and interdisciplinary integrations, notably psychometric testing and organizational behavior analyses. The publication record reflects a sustained engagement with topics of well-being, mental health, and personality traits, often exploring their implications across different populations and settings.

Best Publications

  • Needs and subjective well-being around the world.

    Louis Tay;Ed Diener

  • Advances in subjective well-being research

    Ed Diener;Shigehiro Oishi;Louis Tay

  • Theory and Validity of Life Satisfaction Scales

    Ed Diener;Ed Diener;Ronald Inglehart;Louis Tay

  • Leisure and Subjective Well-Being: A Model of Psychological Mechanisms as Mediating Factors

    David B. Newman;Louis Tay;Ed Diener

  • The religion paradox: if religion makes people happy, why are so many dropping out?

    Ed Diener;Louis Tay;David G. Myers

  • Gender differences in narcissism: A meta-analytic review.

    Emily Grijalva;Daniel A. Newman;Louis Tay;M. Brent Donnellan

  • Findings all psychologists should know from the new science on subjective well-being

    Ed Diener;Samantha J. Heintzelman;Kostadin Kushlev;Louis Tay

  • Rising income and the subjective well-being of nations

    Ed Diener;Louis Tay;Shigehiro Oishi

  • A Review of Key Likert Scale Development Advances: 1995-2019.

    Andrew T. Jebb;Vincent Ng;Louis Tay

  • The Development and Validation of the Comprehensive Inventory of Thriving (CIT) and the Brief Inventory of Thriving (BIT)

    Rong Su;Louis Tay;Ed Diener

  • Outcomes of Meaningful Work: A Meta-Analysis

    Blake A. Allan;Cassondra Batz-Barbarich;Haley M. Sterling;Louis Tay

  • Leisure engagement and subjective well-being: A meta-analysis.

    Lauren Kuykendall;Louis Tay;Vincent Ng

  • Happiness, income satiation and turning points around the world

    Andrew T. Jebb;Louis Tay;Ed Diener;Shigehiro Oishi

  • Systems Perspective of Amazon Mechanical Turk for Organizational Research: Review and Recommendations.

    Melissa G. Keith;Louis Tay;Peter D. Harms

  • Positive Emotions at Work

    Ed Diener;Stuti Thapa;Louis Tay

  • Social Relations, Health Behaviors, and Health Outcomes: A Survey and Synthesis

    Louis Tay;Kenneth Tan;Ed Diener;Elizabeth Gonzalez

  • From Data to Causes I: Building A General Cross-Lagged Panel Model (GCLM)

    Michael J. Zyphur;Paul D. Allison;Louis Tay;Manuel C. Voelkle;Manuel C. Voelkle

  • Time series analysis for psychological research: examining and forecasting change.

    Andrew T. Jebb;Louis Tay;Wei Wang;Qiming Huang

  • Get active? A meta-analysis of leisure-time physical activity and subjective well-being

    Christopher W. Wiese;Lauren Kuykendall;Louis Tay

  • Subjective well‐being and human welfare around the world as reflected in the Gallup World Poll

    Ed Diener;Louis Tay

Frequent Co-Authors

Ed Diener
Ed Diener University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fritz Drasgow
Fritz Drasgow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Shigehiro Oishi
Shigehiro Oishi University of Chicago
James M. LeBreton
James M. LeBreton Pennsylvania State University
James Rounds
James Rounds University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peter D. Harms
Peter D. Harms University of Alabama
Peter Koval
Peter Koval University of Melbourne
Stephen Stark
Stephen Stark University of South Florida
Tammy D. Allen
Tammy D. Allen University of South Florida
Sidney K. D'Mello
Sidney K. D'Mello University of Colorado Boulder

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