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• Counterfactual thinking about one's birth enhances well-being judgments
  Positive Psychology
  Heintzelman, Samantha, Christopher, Justin, Trent, Jason, King, Laura

  Previous research demonstrates that thinking counterfactually about life experiences facilitates meaning making about those events....

• Two traditions of happiness research not two distinct types of happiness.
  Happiness
  Kashdan, Todd, Biswas-Diener, Robert, King, Laura

  In an earlier paper (Kashdan Biswas-Diener & King 2008) we outlined a critique of the distinction being made between eudaimonic and...

• Detecting and constructing meaning in life events.
  Meaning
  Hicks, Joshua, King, Laura

  Three studies examined the meaning ascribed to events varying in intensity and valence and how meaning detection and construction relat...

• On knowing more than we can tell: Intuitive processes and the experience of meaning
  Meaning
  Heintzelman, Samantha, King, Laura

  Conceptually defining meaning and meaning in life has proven to be difficult. We suggest that this difficulty reveals an important fact about meaning....

• Processing fluency positive affect and judgments of meaning in life
  Positive Psychology
  Lavelock, Caroline, Trent, Jason, King, Laura

  This study examined the effects of processing ease on judgments of meaning in life (MIL) employing a common manipulation of fluency font styles....

• Revisiting desirable response bias in well-being reports
  Well-Being
  Heintzelman, Samantha, Trent, Jason, King, Laura

  Growing popular interest in positive psychology may have important implications for the measurement of well-being....