PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS, OP-EDS, CHAPTERS, POLICY PAPERS

2020

Volunteering and Subsequent Health and Well-Being in Older Adults An Outcome-Wide Longitudinal Approach
  • American Journal of Preventative Medicine
Signing at the Beginning vs. at the End of a Form Does Not Decrease Dishonesty
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Science ​(forthcoming)
Can't Buy Me Love (or Friendship): Social Consequences of Financial Contingent Self-Worth
  • Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin (forthcoming)

2019

Why It's So Hard to Change People's Commuting Behavior
  • Harvard Business Review
What We Can Learn From Five Field Experiments That Failed to Shift Commuter Behavior Getting Your Team to Do More Than Meet Deadlines
  • Harvard Business Review
Leisure Beliefs and the Subjective Wellbeing of Nations
  • Journal of Positive Psychology
Valuing Time Over Money Predicts Happiness After a Major Life Transition: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Study of Graduating Students
  • Science Advances
Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment
  • Nature Human Behavior (Pre-Registered Report; Accepted-in-Principle)
Why Asking for Advice is More Effective Than Asking for Feedback
  • Harvard Business Review
How To Make Even the Most Mundane Tasks More Motivating
  • Harvard Business Review
Prosocial Spending and Buying Time: Money as a Tool for Increasing Subjective Well-Being
  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
Are New Graduates Happier Making More Money or Having More Time?
  • Harvard Business Review
Can Online Tools Helps Employees Build Resilience?
  • Harvard Business Review
Why We Don't Ask for More Time on Deadlines (But Probably Should)
  • Harvard Business Review
Time Use and Happiness in Millionaires: Evidence from the Netherlands
  • Social Psychological and Personality Science
The Power of Workplace Rewards: Using Self-Determination Theory to Understand Why Reward Satisfaction Matters for Workers Around the World
  • Compensation & Benefits Review
Time for Happiness: Why the Pursuit of Money isn't Bringing You Joy - and What Will
  • Harvard Business Review
Employee Well-being, Productivity, and Firm Performance: Evidence and Case Studies; (Appendix)
  • Global Happiness Policy Report​
Common Variants of the Oxytocin Receptor Gene Do Not Predict the Positive Mood Benefits of Prosocial Spending
  • Emotion
An Intervention to Improve Resilience Among Employees High in Depression, Anxiety, and Presenteeism
  • International Journal of Human Resource Management
Happiness and Prosocial Behavior: An Evaluation of the Evidence
  • World Happiness Report

2018

Agentic Appeals Increase Charitable Giving in an Affluent Sample of Donors
  • PLoS ONE
​Winning the War for Talent: Modern Motivational Methods for Attracting and Retaining Employees
  • Compensation & Benefits Review
​​Valuing Time Over Money Is Associated With Greater Social Connection
  • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
Making Seconds Count: When Valuing Time Promotes Subjective Well-Being
  • Current Opinion in Psychology
Overcoming Barriers to Time-Saving: Reminders of Future Busyness Encourage Consumers To Buy Time
  • Social Influence
Long-Term Health Implications of Students’ Friendship Formation during the Transition to University
  • ​Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being
​​Olfactory Cues From Romantic Partners and Strangers Influence Women’s Responses to Stress
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
​​Facebook undermines the social belonging of first year students
  • Personality and Individual Differences​
​​A Program to Improve Student Engagement at Research-Focused Universities
  • Teaching of Psychology
Work and Workplace
  • Chapter 9 in Behavioral Insights for Public Policy: Concept and Cases
​Work and Well-Being: A Global Perspective
  • Chapter 5 in Global Happiness Policy Report
Time, Money, and Subjective Well-Being
  • Handbook of Well-Being
Trading Cents for Seconds: The Development of a Short Scale to Examine How People Make Trade-Offs Between Time and Money
  • ​SAGE Research Methods Cases
Spending too much time on your phone? Behavioral science has an app for that
  • The Conversation
From Ph.D. to Policy: Facilitating Connections Between Junior Scholars and Policymakers 
  • Behavioral Scientist
The Scientifically Proven Best Ways to Spend Time if You Want to Be Happy
  • Quartz at Work
​​Why You Need a Chief Behavioral Officer
  • ​Observer​

​2017 

​From Misperception to Social Connection: Correlates and Consequences of Overestimating Others' Social Connectedness
  • ​Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
​Buying Time Promotes Happiness
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
​Both Selfishness and Selflessness Start with the Self: How Wealth Shapes Responses to Charitable Appeals
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
To Promote Happiness, Choose Time Over Money
  • Behavioral Scientist
​Keeping Score of 'Friends' of Facebook and Instagram May Be Harmful to Your Health
  • ​The Conversation
​How to Get the Wealthy to Donate
  • New York Times
​If You Want to Feel Better, Spend Money on Saving Time
  • Wall Street Journal
​Want to Be Happier? Buy Yourself More Free Time
  • Los Angeles Times

​2016

​Seeing Wealth as a Responsibility Improves Attitudes Towards Taxation
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
​Is Spending Money on Others Good for Your Heart?
  • Health Psychology 
Valuing Time Over Money Is Associated with Greater Happiness
  • Social Psychological & Personality Science
Does Volunteering Improve Well-Being?
  • Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology
A Brief Introduction to the Science of Fundraising
  • Council for Advancement and Support of Education

​2015 (AND EARLIER)

​​Finding the Middle Ground: Curvilinear Associations Between Positive Affect Variability and Daily Cortisol Profiles
  • Emotion
​Thinking About Time as Money Decreases Environmental Behavior
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Making a Difference Matters: Impact Unlocks the Emotional Benefits of Prosocial Spending
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Give, If You Know What's Good for You
  • New York Times​

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