ReviewPerspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2025
Happiness Maximization Is a WEIRD Way of Living.
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- Relational Well-Being in Non-WEIRD Societies: A Reformulation of Happiness From a Chinese Cultural Perspective.PsyCh journal · 2026Article
- Machine Learning Culture: Cultural Membership Classification as an Exploratory Approach to Cross-Cultural Psychology.Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2026Article
- Happiness Measured by a Single Item: Psychometric Evaluation of the Arabic Version of Fordyce Global Happiness Scale Among University Students and Mothers of Children With Intellectual Disabilities.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2026Article
- Happiness Meanders: A cross-cultural dataset on happiness, emotions, and models of selfhood from 48 countries.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Psychological traits predict who uses self-help products but usage is not associated with two-year personality change.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Determinants of Well-Being: A Causal Framework.Social indicators research · 2026Article
- The nature of the relation between mental well-being and ill-being.Nature human behaviour · 2025Review
- The immorality of too much money.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- The happiness effect of high-quality development of China's health and wellness industry: micro-empirical evidence from the Chinese Social Survey 2013-2021.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Lay people expect social modernization will bring more societal well-being: the relation between expected societal development, communion, agency and subjective well-being.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Is it okay to feel this way? Exploring the joint effect of emotional experiences and expectations on life satisfaction.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Authors and funding
71 authors at 20 institutions in 46 countries.
Kuba KrysInstitute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences.ORCID 0000-0003-0365-423X
Olga KostoulaInstitute of Psychology, Johannes Kepler University Linz.
Wijnand A P van TilburgDepartment of Psychology, University of Essex.ORCID 0000-0002-9724-0603
Oriana MoscaDepartment of Education, Psychology, and Philosophy, University of Cagliari.
J Hannah LeeDepartment of Psychology, Indiana University Northwest.
Fridanna MaricchioloDepartment of Education, University of Roma Tre.
Aleksandra KosiarczykSWPS University.
Agata Kocimska-BortnowskaSWPS University.
Claudio TorresInstitute of Psychology, University of Brasilia.
Hidefumi HitokotoDepartment of Psychological Sciences, Kwansei Gakuin University.
Kongmeng LiewGraduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University.
Michael H BondDepartment of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Vivian Miu-Chi LunDepartment of Applied Psychology, Lingnan University.
Vivian L VignolesSchool of Psychology, University of Sussex.
John M ZelenskiDepartment of Psychology, Carleton University.
Brian W HaasDepartment of Psychology, University of Georgia.
Joonha ParkGraduate School of Management, NUCB Business School.ORCID 0000-0002-0764-5173
Christin-Melanie VauclairCentre for Psychological Research and Social Intervention (CIS-Iscte), Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.
Anna KwiatkowskaInstitute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Marta RoczniewskaSWPS University.
Nina WitoszekCentre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo.
İdil IşıkPsychology Department, Bahçeşehir University.
Natasza Kosakowska-BerezeckaInstitute of Psychology, University of Gdansk.
Alejandra Domínguez-EspinosaDepartment of Psychology, Iberoamerican University.
June Chun YeungInstitute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences.ORCID 0000-0003-1293-8576
Maciej GórskiInstitute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Mladen AdamovicKing's Business School, King's College London.
Isabelle AlbertDepartment of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Luxembourg.
Vassilis PavlopoulosDepartment of Psychology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Márta FülöpInstitute of Psychology, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church.
David SirlopuFaculty of Psychology and Humanities, Universidad San Sebastián, Concepción.
Ayu OkvitawanliDepartment of Psychology, Universitas Brawijaya.
Diana BoerInstitute of Psychology, University of Koblenz.
Julien TeyssierDépartement Psychologie Clinique Du Sujet, Université Toulouse II.
Arina MalyonovaDepartment of General and Social Psychology, Dostoevsky Omsk State University.
Alin GavreliucDepartment of Psychology, West University of Timisoara.ORCID 0000-0001-8411-0327
Ursula SerdarevichUniversidad Nacional del Oeste.
Charity S AkotiaDepartment of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Ghana.
Lily AppohFaculty of Nursing and Health Sciences, Nord University.
D M Arévalo MiraHULAB, San Salvador, El Salvador.
Arno BaltinSchool of Natural Sciences and Health, Tallinn University.
Patrick DenouxDépartement Psychologie Clinique Du Sujet, Université Toulouse II.
Carla Sofia EstevesUniversidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Católica Lisbon Research Unit in Business and Economics.
Vladimer GamsakhurdiaDepartment of Psychology, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
Ragna B GarðarsdóttirFaculty of Psychology, University of Iceland.
David O IgbokweBaze University Abuja.
Eric R IgouDepartment of Psychology, University of Limerick.
Natalia KascakovaOlomouc University Social Health Institute, Palacky University.
Lucie Klůzová KračmárováInstitute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences.
Nicole KronbergerInstitute of Psychology, Johannes Kepler University Linz.
Pablo Eduardo BarrientosDepartment of Psychology, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.
Tamara MohorićDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka.
Elke MurdockDepartment of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Luxembourg.
Nur Fariza MustaffaDepartment of Business Administration, International Islamic University Malaysia.
Martin NaderDepartment of Psychological Studies, Universidad ICESI.
Azar NadiInstitute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Yvette van OschDepartment of Social Psychology, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University.
Zoran PavlovićDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade.
Iva Poláčková ŠolcováInstitute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences.
Muhammad RizwanDepartment of Psychology, University of Haripur.
Vladyslav RomashovInstitute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Espen RøysambDepartment of Psychology, University of Oslo.
Ruta SargautyteInstitute of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University.
Beate SchwarzDepartment of Applied Psychology, Zurich University of Applied Sciences.
Lenka SeleckáUniversity of St. Cyril and Methodius of Trnava.
Heyla A SelimKing Saud University.
Maria StogianniDepartment of Culture Studies, Tilburg University.
Chien-Ru SunDepartment of Psychology, National Chengchi University.
Agnieszka Wojtczuk-TurekWarsaw School of Economics.
Cai XingDepartment of Psychology, Renmin University of China.
Yukiko UchidaInstitute for the Future of Human Society, Kyoto University.ORCID 0000-0002-8336-2423
Institute of Psychology · PLCzech Academy of Sciences · CZJohannes Kepler University of Linz · ATTilburg University · NLUniversité Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées · FRUniversity of Luxembourg · LUUniversity of Oslo · NOUniwersytet SWPS · PLBahçeşehir University · TRBaze University · NGCarleton University · CAHong Kong Polytechnic University · HKIberoamerican University · CRIcesi University · COIndiana University Northwest · USInternational Islamic University Malaysia · MYIscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa · PTKároli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary · HUKarolinska Institutet · SEKing Saud University · SA
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Abstract
Psychological science tends to treat subjective well-being and happiness synonymously. We start from the assumption that subjective well-being is more than being happy to ask the fundamental question: What is the
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HappinessPersonal SatisfactionCross-Cultural ComparisonHumansculturehappinesslife satisfactionsocietysubjective well-being
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