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Overview

Sonja Lyubomirsky is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside, in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of psychology, with a strong focus on social psychology, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, applied psychology, and health.

Their main topics of work include psychological well-being and life satisfaction, COVID-19 and mental health, behavioral health and interventions, health disparities and outcomes, cultural differences and values, mental health research topics, and psychedelics and drug studies.

Lyubomirsky's publication record includes several recent papers such as:

  • "Mental Health During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review and Recommendations for Moving Forward," 2022, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Current recommendations on the selection of measures for well-being," 2020, Preventive Medicine
  • "Changes in social connection during COVID-19 social distancing: It's not (household) size that matters, it's who you're with," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "Did Social Connection Decline During the First Wave of COVID-19?: The Role of Extraversion," 2020, Collabra Psychology
  • "Interventions to Modify Psychological Well-Being: Progress, Promises, and an Agenda for Future Research," 2023, Affective Science

Frequent collaborators include Lisa C. Walsh, Annie Regan, Seth Margolis, Karynna Okabe-Miyamoto, and Tyler J. VanderWeele.

Their work has been published in several recurring venues, such as:

  • Affective Science
  • The Journal of Positive Psychology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Preventive Medicine

Best Publications

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

    Sonja Lyubomirsky;Laura King;Ed Diener

  • A MEASURE OF SUBJECTIVE HAPPINESS: PRELIMINARY RELIABILITY AND CONSTRUCT VALIDATION

    Sonja Lyubomirsky;Heidi S. Lepper

  • Rethinking Rumination

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  • Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change

    Sonja Lyubomirsky;Kennon M. Sheldon;David Schkade

  • Enhancing well-being and alleviating depressive symptoms with positive psychology interventions: a practice-friendly meta-analysis.

    Nancy L. Sin;Sonja Lyubomirsky

  • The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want

    Sonja Lyubomirsky

  • Maximizing versus satisficing: happiness is a matter of choice

    Barry Schwartz;Andrew Ward;John Monterosso;Sonja Lyubomirsky

  • Effects of self-focused rumination on negative thinking and interpersonal problem solving.

    Sonja Lyubomirsky;Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • Why are some people happier than others? The role of cognitive and motivational processes in well-being.

    Sonja Lyubomirsky

  • How Do Simple Positive Activities Increase Well-Being?:

    Sonja Lyubomirsky;Kristin Layous

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

    Kennon M. Sheldon;Sonja Lyubomirsky

  • Maximizing versus satisficing: Happiness is a matter of choice.

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  • 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

  • Self-perpetuating properties of dysphoric rumination.

    Sonja Lyubomirsky;Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • Effects of ruminative and distracting responses to depressed mood on retrieval of autobiographical memories.

    Sonja Lyubomirsky;Nicole D. Caldwell;Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • Why ruminators are poor problem solvers: clues from the phenomenology of dysphoric rumination.

    Sonja Lyubomirsky;Kari L. Tucker;Nicole D. Caldwell;Kimberly Berg

  • Health benefits: Meta-analytically determining the impact of well-being on objective health outcomes

    Ryan T. Howell;Margaret L. Kern;Sonja Lyubomirsky

  • What are the differences between happiness and self-esteem?

    Sonja Lyubomirsky;Chris Tkach;M. Robin DiMatteo

  • The costs and benefits of writing, talking, and thinking about life's triumphs and defeats.

    Sonja Lyubomirsky;Lorie Sousa;Rene Dickerhoof

  • The Pains and Pleasures of Parenting: When, Why, and How Is Parenthood Associated With More or Less Well-Being?

    S. Katherine Nelson;Kostadin Kushlev;Sonja Lyubomirsky

  • Achieving Sustainable Gains in Happiness: Change Your Actions, not Your Circumstances*

    Kennon M. Sheldon;Sonja Lyubomirsky

  • Hedonic Consequences of Social Comparison: A Contrast of Happy and Unhappy People

    Sonja Lyubomirsky;Lee Ross

Frequent Co-Authors

Kennon M. Sheldon
Kennon M. Sheldon University of Missouri
Julia K. Boehm
Julia K. Boehm Chapman University
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Yale University
Incheol Choi
Incheol Choi Seoul National University
Elizabeth W. Dunn
Elizabeth W. Dunn University of British Columbia
Murray B. Stein
Murray B. Stein University of California, San Diego
Lee Ross
Lee Ross Stanford University
Jeff C. Huffman
Jeff C. Huffman Harvard University
Laura A. King
Laura A. King University of Missouri
Laura D. Kubzansky
Laura D. Kubzansky Harvard University

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