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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Psychology D-index 76 Citations 101,792 177 World Ranking 1166 National Ranking 727

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Social psychology
  • Statistics
  • Social science

Social psychology, Life satisfaction, Happiness, Subjective well-being and Developmental psychology are his primary areas of study. In general Social psychology, his work in Personality, Affect and Happiness economics is often linked to Cross-cultural linking many areas of study. His research in the fields of Extraversion and introversion and Big Five personality traits overlaps with other disciplines such as Trait.

His Life satisfaction study combines topics in areas such as Optimism and Longitudinal study. His study in the field of Hedonic treadmill is also linked to topics like Longitudinal data. In the field of Subjective well-being, his study on Easterlin paradox overlaps with subjects such as Adaptation.

His most cited work include:

  • Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress (7218 citations)
  • Personality, Culture, and Subjective Well-Being: Emotional and Cognitive Evaluations of Life (1968 citations)
  • Discriminant validity of well-being measures. (1267 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His scientific interests lie mostly in Social psychology, Life satisfaction, Subjective well-being, Happiness and Developmental psychology. He regularly ties together related areas like PsycINFO in his Social psychology studies. His studies deal with areas such as Longitudinal study, Association, Demography and Gerontology as well as Life satisfaction.

In his research, Empirical research is intimately related to Cognitive psychology, which falls under the overarching field of Subjective well-being. His Happiness research includes elements of Marital status, Positive psychology and Set. His Affect research incorporates themes from Experience sampling method and Reconstruction method.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Social psychology (48.91%)
  • Life satisfaction (39.13%)
  • Subjective well-being (32.61%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2018-2021)?

  • Life satisfaction (39.13%)
  • Social psychology (48.91%)
  • Subjective well-being (32.61%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Richard E. Lucas mainly focuses on Life satisfaction, Social psychology, Subjective well-being, Developmental psychology and Personality. The concepts of his Life satisfaction study are interwoven with issues in Social support, Association and Clinical psychology. His work in the fields of Affect and Job satisfaction overlaps with other areas such as Experiential learning and Pleasure.

The various areas that Richard E. Lucas examines in his Subjective well-being study include Romance and Life events. The Developmental psychology study combines topics in areas such as Social psychology, Marital status, Marital history, Phenomenon and Posttraumatic growth. His work in the fields of Personality, such as Big Five personality traits, Conscientiousness and Personality development, intersects with other areas such as Psychological intervention.

Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • The policy relevance of personality traits (34 citations)
  • Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results (24 citations)
  • Comparing the Reliability and Validity of Global Self-Report Measures of Subjective Well-Being With Experiential Day Reconstruction Measures. (15 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Statistics
  • Social psychology
  • World War II

His primary areas of study are Personality, Developmental psychology, Subjective well-being, PsycINFO and Big Five personality traits. His work on Conscientiousness as part of general Personality study is frequently linked to Convergent validity, bridging the gap between disciplines. His studies in Developmental psychology integrate themes in fields like Affect, Social psychology, Phenomenon, Posttraumatic growth and Set.

His Subjective well-being study incorporates themes from Life satisfaction, Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Self-report study and Mood. His PsycINFO research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Experience sampling method, Social psychology, Cognitive psychology, Statistics and Reconstruction method. His work carried out in the field of Big Five personality traits brings together such families of science as Personality change, Substance use, Personality development and Health policy.

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Best Publications

Personality, Culture, and Subjective Well-Being: Emotional and Cognitive Evaluations of Life

Ed Diener;Shigehiro Oishi;Richard E. Lucas.
Annual Review of Psychology (2003)

37805 Citations

Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress

Ed Diener;Eunkook M. Suh;Richard E. Lucas;Heidi L. Smith.
Psychological Bulletin (1999)

25410 Citations

Subjective Well-Being: The Science of Happiness and Life Satisfaction

Ed Diener;Shigehiro Oishi;Richard E. Lucas.
(2009)

3100 Citations

Discriminant validity of well-being measures.

Richard E. Lucas;Ed Diener;Eunkook Suh.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (1996)

2776 Citations

The mini-IPIP scales: tiny-yet-effective measures of the Big Five factors of personality.

M. Brent Donnellan;Frederick L. Oswald;Brendan M. Baird;Richard E. Lucas.
Psychological Assessment (2006)

2376 Citations

Reexamining adaptation and the set point model of happiness: reactions to changes in marital status.

Richard E. Lucas;Andrew E. Clark;Yannis Georgellis;Ed Diener.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2003)

1774 Citations

Unemployment Alters the Set Point for Life Satisfaction

Richard E. Lucas;Andrew E. Clark;Yannis Georgellis;Ed Diener.
Psychological Science (2004)

1617 Citations

Beyond the Hedonic Treadmill: Revising the Adaptation Theory of Well-Being

Ed Diener;Richard E. Lucas;Christie Napa Scollon.
American Psychologist (2006)

1564 Citations

Lags and leads in life satisfaction: A test of the baseline hypothesis

Andrew E. Clark;Ed Diener;Yannis Georgellis;Richard E. Lucas.
Research Papers in Economics (2008)

1484 Citations

Subjective well-being and adaptation to life events: a meta-analysis.

Maike Luhmann;Wilhelm Hofmann;Michael Eid;Richard E. Lucas.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2012)

1350 Citations

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