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Robert A. Emmons
Researcher at University of California, Davis
Publications - 115
Citations - 71129
Robert A. Emmons is an academic researcher from University of California, Davis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gratitude & Personality. The author has an hindex of 68, co-authored 113 publications receiving 63351 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert A. Emmons include Michigan State University & Purdue University.
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The Satisfaction with Life Scale
TL;DR: The Satisfaction With Life Scale is narrowly focused to assess global life satisfaction and does not tap related constructs such as positive affect or loneliness, but is shown to have favorable psychometric properties, including high internal consistency and high temporal reliability.
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The Satisfaction With Life Scale.
TL;DR: The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) as mentioned in this paper is a scale to measure global life satisfaction, which does not tap related constructs such as positive affect or loneliness, and has favorable psychometric properties, including high internal consistency and high temporal reliability.
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Counting blessings versus burdens: An experimental investigation of gratitude and subjective well-being in daily life.
TL;DR: Results suggest that a conscious focus on blessings may have emotional and interpersonal benefits and exhibited heightened well-being across several, though not all, of the outcome measures across the 3 studies.
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The independence of positive and negative affect.
Ed Diener,Robert A. Emmons +1 more
TL;DR: It appears that positive and negative affect are independent in terms of how much people feel in their lives over longer time periods, but researchers need to focus on the processes that underlie both positive andnegative affect and that are responsible for producing their relative independence.
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The grateful disposition: A conceptual and empirical topography
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the correlates of the disposition toward gratitude and found that self-ratings and observer ratings of the grateful disposition are associated with positive affect and well-being, prosocial behaviors and traits, and religiousness/spirituality.