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List of works by Kennon Sheldon

A longitudinal experimental study comparing the effectiveness of happiness-enhancing strategies in Anglo Americans and Asian Americans

scientific article published on June 1, 2011

A versus F: the effects of implicit letter priming on cognitive performance

scientific article published on 21 July 2009

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

scientific article (publication date: March 2006)

Antecedents and trajectories of achievement goals: a self-determination theory perspective

scientific article

Avoidance Personal Goals and Subjective Well-Being

scientific article published on 01 September 1997

Avoidance personal goals and the personality-illness relationship

scientific article published in November 1998

Becoming happier takes both a will and a proper way: An experimental longitudinal intervention to boost well-being

scientific article published on April 1, 2011

Do Some People Need Autonomy More Than Others? Implicit Dispositions Toward Autonomy Moderate the Effects of Felt Autonomy on Well-Being

scientific article published on 16 September 2014

Eyes on the prize or nose to the grindstone? The effects of level of goal evaluation on mood and motivation

scientific article published on 28 July 2008

Feeling Interpersonally Controlled While Pursuing Materialistic Goals: A Problematic Combination for Moral Behavior

scientific article published in April 2018

Goal striving, need satisfaction, and longitudinal well-being: The self-concordance model.

scientific article (publication date: 1999)

In search of the organismic valuing process: the human tendency to move towards beneficial goal choices

scientific article

Is Lasting Change Possible? Lessons from the Hedonic Adaptation Prevention Model

scientific article published on 2014

Motivating behavioral persistence: the self-as-doer construct

scientific article published in August 2006

Motivating learning, performance, and persistence: the synergistic effects of intrinsic goal contents and autonomy-supportive contexts

scientific article published in August 2004

Openness to experience predicts intrinsic value shifts after deliberating one's own death.

scientific article published on 26 May 2017

Personal goals and psychological growth: testing an intervention to enhance goal attainment and personality integration

scientific article published in February 2002

Priming effects on cooperative behavior in social dilemmas: considering the prime and the person

scientific article

Pursuing happiness: The architecture of sustainable change

scholarly article by Sonja Lyubomirsky et al published 2005 in Review of General Psychology

Self-Determination Theory as a Foundation for Personality Researchers.

scientific article published on 16 November 2017

The challenge of staying happier: testing the Hedonic Adaptation Prevention model

scientific article published on 23 February 2012

The independent effects of goal contents and motives on well-being: it's both what you pursue and why you pursue it.

scientific article published in April 2004

The structure of goal contents across 15 cultures

scientific article published in November 2005

Wanting, having, and needing: Integrating motive disposition theory and self-determination theory

scientific article published on November 1, 2011