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1203
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Richard E. Lucas publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard E. Lucas sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 196 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Richard E. Lucas D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard E. Lucas sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 84 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Richard E. Lucas is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. The primary focus of their research lies within psychology, with extensive contributions to the subfields of social psychology, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, applied psychology, and health.

The work of Richard E. Lucas spans a variety of main topics including psychological well-being and life satisfaction, personality traits and psychology, health disparities and outcomes, mental health research topics, behavioral health and interventions, social and intergroup psychology, as well as optimism, hope, and well-being.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Richard E. Lucas include:

  • Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: Challenges, opportunities, and recommendations (2020) published in Journal of Personality
  • Why the Cross-Lagged Panel Model Is Almost Never the Right Choice (2023) published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • Characterizing Geographic Variation in Well-Being Using Tweets (2021) published in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results (2020) published in Psychological Bulletin
  • Personality trait stability and change (2021) published in Personality Science

Frequent coauthors of Richard E. Lucas include:

  • M. Brent Donnellan (10 coauthored publications)
  • William J. Chopik (8 coauthored publications)
  • Maike Luhmann (7 coauthored publications)
  • Brent W. Roberts (6 coauthored publications)
  • Julia M. Rohrer (5 coauthored publications)

Richard E. Lucas has been published frequently in a number of venues, with repeated publications in:

  • European Journal of Personality (8 publications)
  • Journal of Personality (3 publications)
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (3 publications)
  • Personality Science (2 publications)
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2 publications)

Best Publications

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

    Ed Diener;Shigehiro Oishi;Richard E. Lucas

  • Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress

    Ed Diener;Eunkook M. Suh;Richard E. Lucas;Heidi L. Smith

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

    Ed Diener;Shigehiro Oishi;Richard E. Lucas

  • 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

  • Discriminant validity of well-being measures.

    Richard E. Lucas;Ed Diener;Eunkook Suh

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

    Ed Diener;Richard E. Lucas;Christie Napa Scollon

  • 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

  • Unemployment Alters the Set Point for Life Satisfaction

    Richard E. Lucas;Andrew E. Clark;Yannis Georgellis;Ed Diener

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

    Maike Luhmann;Wilhelm Hofmann;Michael Eid;Richard E. Lucas

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

    Andrew E. Clark;Ed Diener;Yannis Georgellis;Richard E. Lucas

  • Well-Being for Public Policy

    Ed Diener;Richard Lucas;Ulrich Schimmack;John Helliwell

  • Adaptation and the Set-Point Model of Subjective Well-Being Does Happiness Change After Major Life Events?

    Richard E. Lucas

  • Assessing the Validity of Single-item Life Satisfaction Measures: Results from Three Large Samples

    Felix Cheung;Richard E. Lucas

  • Advances and Open Questions in the Science of Subjective Well-Being

    Ed Diener;Richard E. Lucas;Shigehiro Oishi

  • Cross-cultural evidence for the fundamental features of extraversion.

    Richard E. Lucas;Ed Diener;Alexander Grob;Alexander Grob;Eunkook M. Suh

  • The evolving concept of subjective well-being: The multifaceted nature of happiness.

    Ed Diener;Christie Napa Scollon;Richard E. Lucas

  • Value as a Moderator in Subjective Well‐Being

    Shigehiro Oishi;Ed Diener;Eunkook Suh;Richard E. Lucas

  • Explaining Differences in Societal Levels of Happiness: Relative Standards, Need Fulfillment, Culture, and Evaluation Theory

    Ed Diener;Richard E. Lucas

  • Cross-Cultural Variations in Predictors of Life Satisfaction: Perspectives from Needs and Values

    Shigehiro Oishi;Edward F. Diener;Richard E. Lucas;Eunkook M. Suh

  • Age differences in the Big Five across the life span: evidence from two national samples.

    M. Brent Donnellan;Richard E. Lucas

  • Time Does Not Heal All Wounds A Longitudinal Study of Reaction and Adaptation to Divorce

    Richard E. Lucas

Frequent Co-Authors

Ed Diener
Ed Diener University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M. Brent Donnellan
M. Brent Donnellan Michigan State University
Ulrich Schimmack
Ulrich Schimmack University of Toronto
John F. Helliwell
John F. Helliwell University of British Columbia
Shigehiro Oishi
Shigehiro Oishi University of Chicago
Andrew E. Clark
Andrew E. Clark Paris School of Economics
Maike Luhmann
Maike Luhmann Ruhr University Bochum
Eunkook M. Suh
Eunkook M. Suh Yonsei University
William J. Chopik
William J. Chopik Michigan State University
Vicki A. Freedman
Vicki A. Freedman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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