| Pursuing happiness: The architecture of sustainable change S Lyubomirsky, KM Sheldon, D Schkade Review of general psychology 9 (2), 111-131, 2005 | 5497 | 2005 |
| Goal striving, need satisfaction, and longitudinal well-being: the self-concordance model. KM Sheldon, AJ Elliot Journal of personality and social psychology 76 (3), 482, 1999 | 3753 | 1999 |
| Daily well-being: The role of autonomy, competence, and relatedness HT Reis, KM Sheldon, SL Gable, J Roscoe, RM Ryan Personality and social psychology bulletin 26 (4), 419-435, 2000 | 3688 | 2000 |
| Why positive psychology is necessary. KM Sheldon, L King American psychologist 56 (3), 216, 2001 | 2741 | 2001 |
| Basic psychological need satisfaction, need frustration, and need strength across four cultures B Chen, M Vansteenkiste, W Beyers, L Boone, EL Deci, ... Motivation and emotion 39, 216-236, 2015 | 2681 | 2015 |
| What is satisfying about satisfying events? Testing 10 candidate psychological needs. KM Sheldon, AJ Elliot, Y Kim, T Kasser Journal of personality and social psychology 80 (2), 325, 2001 | 2602 | 2001 |
| Motivating learning, performance, and persistence: the synergistic effects of intrinsic goal contents and autonomy-supportive contexts. M Vansteenkiste, J Simons, W Lens, KM Sheldon, EL Deci Journal of personality and social psychology 87 (2), 246, 2004 | 2516 | 2004 |
| What makes for a good day? Competence and autonomy in the day and in the person KM Sheldon, R Ryan, HT Reis Personality and social psychology bulletin 22 (12), 1270-1279, 1996 | 1693 | 1996 |
| Coherence and congruence: two aspects of personality integration. KM Sheldon, T Kasser Journal of personality and social psychology 68 (3), 531, 1995 | 1593 | 1995 |
| Trait self and true self: Cross-role variation in the Big-Five personality traits and its relations with psychological authenticity and subjective well-being. KM Sheldon, RM Ryan, LJ Rawsthorne, B Ilardi Journal of personality and social psychology 73 (6), 1380, 1997 | 1509 | 1997 |
| How to increase and sustain positive emotion: The effects of expressing gratitude and visualizing best possible selves KM Sheldon, S Lyubomirsky The journal of positive psychology 1 (2), 73-82, 2006 | 1496 | 2006 |
| The independent effects of goal contents and motives on well-being: It’s both what you pursue and why you pursue it KM Sheldon, RM Ryan, EL Deci, T Kasser Personality and social psychology bulletin 30 (4), 475-486, 2004 | 1465 | 2004 |
| Pursuing personal goals: Skills enable progress, but not all progress is beneficial KM Sheldon, T Kasser Personality and social psychology bulletin 24 (12), 1319-1331, 1998 | 1347 | 1998 |
| Not all personal goals are personal: Comparing autonomous and controlled reasons for goals as predictors of effort and attainment KM Sheldon, AJ Elliot Personality and social psychology bulletin 24 (5), 546-557, 1998 | 1251 | 1998 |
| All goals are not created equal: An organismic perspective on the nature of goals and their regulation. RM Ryan, KM Sheldon, T Kasser, EL Deci The Guilford Press, 1996 | 1239 | 1996 |
| Becoming happier takes both a will and a proper way: an experimental longitudinal intervention to boost well-being. S Lyubomirsky, R Dickerhoof, JK Boehm, KM Sheldon Emotion 11 (2), 391, 2011 | 1115 | 2011 |
| The structure of goal contents across 15 cultures. FME Grouzet, T Kasser, A Ahuvia, JMF Dols, Y Kim, S Lau, RM Ryan, ... Journal of personality and social psychology 89 (5), 800, 2005 | 1100 | 2005 |
| Self-concordance, goal attainment, and the pursuit of happiness: Can there be an upward spiral? KM Sheldon, L Houser-Marko Journal of personality and social psychology 80 (1), 152, 2001 | 1080 | 2001 |
| Avoidance achievement motivation: a personal goals analysis. AJ Elliot, KM Sheldon Journal of personality and social psychology 73 (1), 171, 1997 | 901 | 1997 |
| A two-process view of Facebook use and relatedness need-satisfaction: disconnection drives use, and connection rewards it. KM Sheldon, N Abad, C Hinsch Journal of personality and social psychology 100 (4), 766, 2011 | 850 | 2011 |
Sonja LyubomirskyUniversity of California, RiversideVerified email at ucr.edu
