Most People Are Happy

Subjective well-being.

1984 • 8,034 citations

Subjective well-being.

1984 • 7,812 citations

Illusion and well-being: A social psychological perspective on mental health.

1988 • 7,315 citations

Review of the Satisfaction With Life Scale

2009 • 3,542 citations

Social Indicators of Well-Being

1976 • 3,465 citations

Review of the Satisfaction With Life Scale.

1993 • 3,241 citations

Who Is Happy?

1995 • 2,283 citations

The Quality of American Life: Perceptions, Evaluations, and Satisfactions.

1977 • 2,018 citations

When More Pain Is Preferred to Less: Adding a Better End

1993 • 1,430 citations

Americans View Their Mental Health, 1957

1984 • 1,137 citations

Americans View Their Mental Health.

1960 • 707 citations

Subjective Well‐Being: The Convergence and Stability of Self‐Report and Non‐Self‐Report Measures

1993 • 675 citations

A review of research on the happiness measures: A sixty second index of happiness and mental health

1988 • 647 citations

Memory accuracy in the recall of emotions.

1990 • 398 citations

Person???Situation interactions: Choice of situations and congruence response models.

1984 • 386 citations

The Pollyanna principle: Selectivity in language, memory, and thought

1978 • 362 citations

Downward comparison, prejudice, and evaluations of others: Effects of self-esteem and threat.

1987 • 340 citations

Person × Situation interactions: Choice of situations and congruence response models.

1984 • 329 citations

Social Indicators Research

2014 • 259 citations

Evaluating one's life: A judgment model of subjective well-being.

1988 • 231 citations

Multiple role juggling and daily mood states in working mothers: An experience sampling study.

1991 • 202 citations

Memory for positive versus negative life events: Theories for the differences between happy and unhappy persons.

1993 • 192 citations

Daily Emotional States as Reported by Children and Adolescents

1989 • 188 citations

Subjective well-being: An interdisciplinary perspective

1992 • 187 citations

Daily Emotional States as Reported by Children and Adolescents

1989 • 160 citations

Correlates of life satisfaction in those with disabling conditions.

1990 • 156 citations

Memory for positive versus negative life events: Theories for the differences between happy and unhappy persons.

1993 • 156 citations

The Complete Greek Tragedies

1961 • 129 citations

Stability and change in levels and structure of subjective well-being: USA 1972 and 1988

1991 • 121 citations

The sense of relative superiority — Central to well-being

1988 • 115 citations

A Structural Model of Positive and Negative States of Mind: Asymmetry in the Internal Dialogue

1986 • 109 citations

Advances in Cognitive–Behavioral Research and Therapy

1985 • 96 citations

The Daily Life of Ambulatory Chronic Mental Patients

1987 • 81 citations

Autonomic arousal feedback and emotional experience: Evidence from the spinal cord injured.

1988 • 76 citations

Autonomic arousal feedback and emotional experience: Evidence from the spinal cord injured.

1988 • 70 citations

The life satisfaction of nonnormal persons.

1973 • 59 citations

Does training in problem solving improve the quality of group decisions?

1991 • 34 citations

LIFE OUTCOMES AND SATISFACTION RATINGS OF MULTIHANDICAPPED ADULTS*

1983 • 19 citations