… The first objective of Study 1 was to extend our (Sheldon & Elliot, 1998) finding that individual
goals receive more effort and are better attained when they are self-concordant. Table 1 …

The pursuit of happiness is an important goal for many people. However, surprisingly little
scientific research has focused on the question of how happiness can be increased and then …

The authors provide a definition of positive psychology and suggest that psychologists should
try to cultivate a more appreciative perspective on human nature. Examples are given of a …

… affect than for reducing negative affect (Sheldon & Bettencourt, 2000; Sheldon et al., 1996).
Most … Sheldon and Youngmee Kim collaborated to create a final South Korean version of the …

The assertion that both the content of goals and the motives behind goals affect psychological
well-being has been controversial. Three studies examined this issue directly, showing …

… Experimental evidence in favor of our viewpoint has been obtained by Kasser and Sheldon
(2000), who manipulated feelings of insecurity by asking research participants to write …

… Research by Sheldon and colleagues suggests that one source of these positive age-related
changes is older peoples’ ability to resist social pressures and to pursue goals for more self…

… Houser-Marko and Sheldon first asked participants to turn their goals into doer verb-phrases
(ie, “boost my GPA” became “good grade-getter,” and “work on my social life” became “…

… can provide a powerful theoretical lens with which to consider both the ultimate functions
of lower level processes and how successfully those processes fulfill their functions (Sheldon, …

Emotional well-being is most typically studied in trait or trait-like terms, yet a growing literature
indicates that daily (within-person) fluctuations in emotional well-being may be equally …