Laura A. King - Publications

Affiliations: 
University of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States 
Area:
Personality, Well-Being

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2023 Rose H, Womick J, King LA. Purpose Maintained: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Meaning in Life. Journal of Personality. PMID 36748110 DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12820  0.776
2022 Ward S, Womick J, Titova L, King L. Meaning in Life and Coping With Everyday Stressors. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 1461672211068910. PMID 35109717 DOI: 10.1177/01461672211068910  0.809
2021 Womick J, Eckelkamp J, Luzzo S, Ward SJ, Baker SG, Salamun A, King LA. Exposure to authoritarian values leads to lower positive affect, higher negative affect, and higher meaning in life. Plos One. 16: e0256759. PMID 34525099 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256759  0.813
2021 Womick J, Woody B, King LA. Religious Fundamentalism, Right-wing Authoritarianism, and Meaning in Life. Journal of Personality. PMID 34328224 DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12665  0.771
2020 King LA, Hicks JA. The Science of Meaning in Life. Annual Review of Psychology. PMID 32898466 DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Psych-072420-122921  0.678
2020 Womick J, Atherton B, King LA. Lives of significance (and purpose and coherence): subclinical narcissism, meaning in life, and subjective well-being. Heliyon. 6: e03982. PMID 32462090 DOI: 10.1016/J.Heliyon.2020.E03982  0.773
2020 Heintzelman SJ, Mohideen F, Oishi S, King LA. Lay beliefs about meaning in life: Examinations across targets, time, and countries Journal of Research in Personality. 88: 104003. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jrp.2020.104003  0.772
2020 Ward SJ, King LA. Examining the roles of intuition and gender in magical beliefs Journal of Research in Personality. 86: 103956. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jrp.2020.103956  0.648
2019 Womick J, Ward SJ, Heintzelman SJ, Woody B, King LA. The Existential Function of Right-wing Authoritarianism. Journal of Personality. PMID 30661236 DOI: 10.1111/Jopy.12457  0.738
2019 Ward SJ, King LA. Moral stereotypes, moral self-image, and religiosity. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. DOI: 10.1037/Rel0000263  0.602
2019 Womick J, Foltz RM, King LA. “Releasing the beast within”? Authenticity, well-being, and the Dark Tetrad Personality and Individual Differences. 137: 115-125. DOI: 10.1016/J.Paid.2018.08.022  0.766
2018 Lanning K, Pauletti RE, King LA, McAdams DP. Personality development through natural language. Nature Human Behaviour. 2: 327-334. PMID 30962596 DOI: 10.1038/S41562-018-0329-0  0.325
2018 Heintzelman SJ, King LA. Routines and Meaning in Life. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 146167218795133. PMID 30226411 DOI: 10.1177/0146167218795133  0.772
2018 Ward SJ, King LA. Moral self-regulation, moral identity, and religiosity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. PMID 30024183 DOI: 10.1037/Pspp0000207  0.691
2018 Bauer JJ, King LA, Steger MF. Meaning-Making, Self-Determination Theory, and the Question of Wisdom in Personality. Journal of Personality. PMID 29524331 DOI: 10.1111/Jopy.12381  0.432
2018 Ward SJ, King LA. Gender Differences in Emotion Explain Women's Lower Immoral Intentions and Harsher Moral Condemnation. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 146167217744525. PMID 29291658 DOI: 10.1177/0146167217744525  0.644
2018 Womick J, Rothmund T, Azevedo F, King LA, Jost JT. Group-Based Dominance and Authoritarian Aggression Predict Support for Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Social Psychological and Personality Science. 10: 643-652. DOI: 10.1177/1948550618778290  0.741
2018 Ward SJ, King LA. Religion and moral self-image: The contributions of prosocial behavior, socially desirable responding, and personality Personality and Individual Differences. 131: 222-231. DOI: 10.1016/J.Paid.2018.04.028  0.644
2018 Pratscher SD, Wood PK, King LA, Bettencourt BA. Interpersonal Mindfulness: Scale Development and Initial Construct Validation Mindfulness. 10: 1044-1061. DOI: 10.1007/S12671-018-1057-2  0.39
2017 Ward SJ, King LA. Individual Differences in Reliance on Intuition Predict Harsher Moral Judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. PMID 28627916 DOI: 10.1037/Pspp0000153  0.687
2017 Ward SJ, King LA. Exploring the place of financial status in the good life: Income and meaning in life The Journal of Positive Psychology. 14: 312-323. DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2017.1402075  0.692
2017 Ward SJ, King LA. Work and the good life: How work contributes to meaning in life Research in Organizational Behavior. 37: 59-82. DOI: 10.1016/J.Riob.2017.10.001  0.68
2016 Heintzelman SJ, King LA. Meaning in life and intuition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 110: 477-92. PMID 26322984 DOI: 10.1037/Pspp0000062  0.768
2016 Ward SJ, King LA. Poor but Happy? Income, Happiness, and Experienced and Expected Meaning in Life Social Psychological and Personality Science. 7: 463-470. DOI: 10.1177/1948550615627865  0.681
2016 King LA, Heintzelman SJ, Ward SJ. Beyond the Search for Meaning: A Contemporary Science of the Experience of Meaning in Life Current Directions in Psychological Science. 25: 211-216. DOI: 10.1177/0963721416656354  0.819
2016 Heintzelman SJ, Trent J, King LA. How would the self be remembered? Evidence for posthumous self-verification Journal of Research in Personality. 61: 1-10. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jrp.2015.12.004  0.793
2015 Heintzelman SJ, King LA. Self-reports of meaning in life matter. The American Psychologist. 70: 575-6. PMID 26348348 DOI: 10.1037/A0039483  0.74
2015 Cicero DC, Hicks JA, King LA. The Role of Positive Affect and Individual Differences in Intuition in the Accuracy of Pattern Recognition Imagination, Cognition and Personality. 34: 398-414. DOI: 10.1177/0276236615572593  0.657
2015 Heintzelman SJ, Trent J, King LA. Revisiting desirable response bias in well-being reports Journal of Positive Psychology. 10: 167-178. DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2014.927903  0.798
2015 Ward SJ, King LA. Individual differences in intuitive processing moderate responses to moral transgressions Personality and Individual Differences. 87: 230-235. DOI: 10.1016/J.Paid.2015.08.021  0.673
2014 Heintzelman SJ, King LA. (The feeling of) meaning-as-information. Personality and Social Psychology Review : An Official Journal of the Society For Personality and Social Psychology, Inc. 18: 153-67. PMID 24501092 DOI: 10.1177/1088868313518487  0.733
2014 Heintzelman SJ, King LA. Life is pretty meaningful. The American Psychologist. 69: 561-74. PMID 24490907 DOI: 10.1037/A0035049  0.763
2013 Heintzelman SJ, Trent J, King LA. Encounters with objective coherence and the experience of meaning in life. Psychological Science. 24: 991-8. PMID 23620548 DOI: 10.1177/0956797612465878  0.811
2013 Burton C, Heintzelman S, King L. A Place for Individual Differences in What Everyone Knows About What Everyone Does: Positive Affect, Cognitive Processes, and Cognitive Experiential Self Theory Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 7: 749-761. DOI: 10.1111/Spc3.12063  0.774
2013 Heintzelman SJ, King LA. On knowing more than we can tell: Intuitive processes and the experience of meaning Journal of Positive Psychology. 8: 471-482. DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2013.830758  0.746
2013 Trent J, Lavelock C, King LA. Processing fluency, positive affect, and judgments of meaning in life Journal of Positive Psychology. 8: 135-139. DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2013.772220  0.678
2013 Heintzelman SJ, Christopher J, Trent J, King LA. Counterfactual thinking about one's birth enhances well-being judgments Journal of Positive Psychology. 8: 44-49. DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2012.754925  0.807
2013 Trent J, King LA. Faith in Intuition moderates the effects of positive affect on gender stereotyping Personality and Individual Differences. 54: 865-868. DOI: 10.1016/J.Paid.2012.12.008  0.628
2013 Heintzelman SJ, King LA. The origins of meaning: Objective reality, the unconscious mind, and awareness The Experience of Meaning in Life: Classical Perspectives, Emerging Themes, and Controversies. 87-99. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6527-6_7  0.701
2012 Hicks JA, Trent J, Davis WE, King LA. Positive affect, meaning in life, and future time perspective: an application of socioemotional selectivity theory. Psychology and Aging. 27: 181-9. PMID 21707177 DOI: 10.1037/A0023965  0.786
2012 King LA, Eells JE, Burton CM. The Good Life, Broadly and Narrowly Considered Positive Psychology in Practice. 35-52. DOI: 10.1002/9780470939338.ch3  0.755
2011 King LA, Geise AC. Being forgotten: implications for the experience of meaning in life. The Journal of Social Psychology. 151: 696-709. PMID 22208108 DOI: 10.1080/00224545.2010.522620  0.448
2011 Hicks JA, King LA. Subliminal mere exposure and explicit and implicit positive affective responses. Cognition & Emotion. 25: 726-9. PMID 21547773 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2010.497409  0.631
2011 Schlegel RJ, Hicks JA, King LA, Arndt J. Feeling like you know who you are: perceived true self-knowledge and meaning in life. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 37: 745-56. PMID 21402753 DOI: 10.1177/0146167211400424  0.681
2011 Heintzelman SJ, King LA. The local baby and the global bathwater: Circumscribed goals for the future of the multilevel personality in context model Psychological Inquiry. 22: 23-25. DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2011.544027  0.69
2010 Hicks JA, Schlegel RJ, King LA. Social threats, happiness, and the dynamics of meaning in life judgments. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 36: 1305-17. PMID 20729336 DOI: 10.1177/0146167210381650  0.657
2010 Hicks JA, Cicero DC, Trent J, Burton CM, King LA. Positive affect, intuition, and feelings of meaning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 98: 967-79. PMID 20515252 DOI: 10.1037/A0019377  0.805
2010 Landau MJ, Sullivan D, King LA. Terror Management and Personality: Variations in the Psychological Defense Against the Awareness of Mortality Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 4: 906-917. DOI: 10.1111/J.1751-9004.2010.00305.X  0.379
2010 Trent J, King LA. Predictors of rapid versus thoughtful judgments of meaning in life Journal of Positive Psychology. 5: 439-451. DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2010.534106  0.7
2009 Burton CM, King LA. The health benefits of writing about positive experiences: the role of broadened cognition. Psychology & Health. 24: 867-79. PMID 20205032 DOI: 10.1080/08870440801989946  0.783
2009 King LA, Hicks JA, Abdelkhalik J. Death, life, scarcity, and value: an alternative perspective on the meaning of death. Psychological Science. 20: 1459-62. PMID 19883489 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9280.2009.02466.X  0.667
2009 Schlegel RJ, Hicks JA, Arndt J, King LA. Thine own self: true self-concept accessibility and meaning in life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 96: 473-90. PMID 19159144 DOI: 10.1037/A0014060  0.669
2009 Hicks JA, King LA. Meaning in Life as a Subjective Judgment and a Lived Experience Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 3: 638-653. DOI: 10.1111/J.1751-9004.2009.00193.X  0.705
2009 King LA, Burton CM, Geise AC. The Good (Gay) Life: The Search for Signs of Maturity in the Narratives of Gay Adults The Story of Sexual Identity: Narrative Perspectives On the Gay and Lesbian Life Course. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326789.003.0016  0.736
2009 Hicks JA, King LA. Positive mood and social relatedness as information about meaning in life Journal of Positive Psychology. 4: 471-482. DOI: 10.1080/17439760903271108  0.716
2009 King LA, Hicks JA. Detecting and constructing meaning in life events Journal of Positive Psychology. 4: 317-330. DOI: 10.1080/17439760902992316  0.678
2009 King LA, Hicks JA. Positive affect, intuition and referential thinking Personality and Individual Differences. 46: 719-724. DOI: 10.1016/J.Paid.2009.01.031  0.692
2008 Burton CM, King LA. Effects of (very) brief writing on health: the two-minute miracle. British Journal of Health Psychology. 13: 9-14. PMID 18230223 DOI: 10.1348/135910707X250910  0.764
2008 Kashdan TB, Biswas-Diener R, King LA. Reconsidering happiness: The costs of distinguishing between hedonics and eudaimonia Journal of Positive Psychology. 3: 219-233. DOI: 10.1080/17439760802303044  0.341
2008 Hicks JA, King LA. Religious commitment and positive mood as information about meaning in life Journal of Research in Personality. 42: 43-57. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jrp.2007.04.003  0.71
2007 King LA, Hicks JA. Whatever Happened to "What Might Have Been"?: Regrets, Happiness, and Maturity American Psychologist. 62: 625-636. PMID 17924747 DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.62.7.625  0.676
2007 King LA, Burton CM, Hicks JA, Drigotas SM. Ghosts, UFOs, and magic: positive affect and the experiential system. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 92: 905-19. PMID 17484612 DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.92.5.905  0.786
2007 Hicks JA, King LA. Meaning in life and seeing the big picture: Positive affect and global focus Cognition and Emotion. 21: 1577-1584. DOI: 10.1080/02699930701347304  0.708
2007 Sheldon KM, King LA, Houser-Marko L, Osbaldiston R, Gunz A. Comparing IAT and TAT measures of power versus intimacy motivation European Journal of Personality. 21: 263-280. DOI: 10.1002/Per.630  0.31
2007 King LA, Hicks JA. Lost and found possible selves: Goals, development, and well-being New Directions For Adult and Continuing Education. 2007: 27-37. DOI: 10.1002/Ace.254  0.589
2006 King LA, Hicks JA, Krull JL, Del Gaiso AK. Positive affect and the experience of meaning in life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 90: 179-96. PMID 16448317 DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.90.1.179  0.715
2006 King LA, Hicks JA. Narrating the Self in the Past and the Future: Implications for Maturity Research in Human Development. 3: 121-138. DOI: 10.1080/15427609.2006.9683365  0.685
2005 Lyubomirsky S, King L, Diener E. The benefits of frequent positive affect: does happiness lead to success? Psychological Bulletin. 131: 803-55. PMID 16351326 DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.131.6.803  0.597
2005 King LA, Noelle SS. Happy, mature, and gay: Intimacy, power, and difficult times in coming out stories Journal of Research in Personality. 39: 278-298. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jrp.2004.06.002  0.423
2005 Twenge JM, King LA. A good life is a personal life: Relationship fulfillment and work fulfillment in judgments of life quality Journal of Research in Personality. 39: 336-353. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jrp.2004.01.004  0.451
2004 King LA, Smith NG. Gay and straight possible selves: goals, identity, subjective well-being, and personality development. Journal of Personality. 72: 967-94. PMID 15335334 DOI: 10.1111/J.0022-3506.2004.00287.X  0.432
2004 King LA, Raspin C. Lost and found possible selves, subjective well-being, and ego development in divorced women Journal of Personality. 72: 603-632. PMID 15102040 DOI: 10.1111/J.0022-3506.2004.00274.X  0.365
2004 Scollon CN, King LA. Is the Good Life the Easy Life? Social Indicators Research. 68: 127-162. DOI: 10.1023/B:Soci.0000025590.44950.D1  0.455
2004 Burton CM, King LA. The health benefits of writing about intensely positive experiences Journal of Research in Personality. 38: 150-163. DOI: 10.1016/S0092-6566(03)00058-8  0.764
2002 Singer JA, King LA, Green MC, Barr SC. Personal identity and civic responsibility: "Rising to the occasion" narratives and generativity in community action student interns Journal of Social Issues. 58: 535-556. DOI: 10.1111/1540-4560.00275  0.304
2001 King LA. The Health Benefits of Writing about Life Goals Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 27: 798-807. DOI: 10.1177/0146167201277003  0.433
2001 King LA. The Hard Road to the Good Life: The Happy, Mature Person Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 41: 51-72. DOI: 10.1177/0022167801411005  0.434
2001 Sheldon KM, King L. Why positive psychology is necessary. American Psychologist. 56: 216-217. DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.56.3.216  0.369
2000 King LA, Miner KN. Writing about the Perceived Benefits of Traumatic Events: Implications for Physical Health Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 26: 220-230. DOI: 10.1177/0146167200264008  0.354
2000 King LA, Scollon CK, Ramsey C, Williams T. Stories of Life Transition: Subjective Well-Being and Ego Development in Parents of Children with Down Syndrome Journal of Research in Personality. 34: 509-536. DOI: 10.1006/Jrpe.2000.2285  0.61
1999 King LA, Patterson C. Reconstructing life goals after the birth of a child with Down Syndrome: Finding happiness and growing International Journal of Rehabilitation and Health. 5: 17-30. DOI: 10.1023/A:1012955018489  0.77
1998 King LA, Richards JH, Stemmerich E. Daily Goals, Life Goals, and Worst Fears: Means, Ends, and Subjective Well-Being Journal of Personality. 66: 713-744. PMID 9802231 DOI: 10.1111/1467-6494.00030  0.448
1998 King LA, Napa CK. What Makes a Life Good? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 75: 156-165. PMID 9686456 DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.75.1.156  0.47
1998 King LA. Ambivalence over emotional expression and reading emotions in situations and faces. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 74: 753-762. PMID 9523417 DOI: 10.1037//0022-3514.74.3.753  0.313
1997 King LA, Broyles SJ. Wishes, Gender, Personality, and Well-Being Journal of Personality. 65: 48-76. PMID 9143145 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-6494.1997.Tb00529.X  0.763
1996 King LA. Who Is Regulating What and Why? Motivational Context of Self-Regulation Psychological Inquiry. 7: 57-60. DOI: 10.1207/S15327965Pli0701_11  0.323
1996 King LA, Walker LM, Broyles SJ. Creativity and the Five-Factor Model Journal of Research in Personality. 30: 189-203. DOI: 10.1006/Jrpe.1996.0013  0.767
1995 King LA. Wishes, motives, goals, and personal memories: relations of measures of human motivation Journal of Personality. 63: 985-1007. PMID 8531046 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-6494.1995.Tb00323.X  0.34
1993 King LA. Emotional expression, ambivalence over expression, and marital satisfaction Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. 10: 601-607. DOI: 10.1177/0265407593104008  0.317
1992 King LA, Emmons RA, Woodley S. The structure of inhibition Journal of Research in Personality. 26: 85-102. DOI: 10.1016/0092-6566(92)90061-8  0.641
1991 King LA, Emmons RA. Psychological, physical, and interpersonal correlates of emotional expressiveness, conflict, and control European Journal of Personality. 5: 131-150. DOI: 10.1002/Per.2410050206  0.617
1990 King LA, Emmons RA. Conflict over emotional expression: psychological and physical correlates. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 58: 864-77. PMID 2348373 DOI: 10.1037//0022-3514.58.5.864  0.659
1989 Emmons RA, King LA. Personal striving differentiation and affective reactivity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 56: 478-84. PMID 2926643 DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.56.3.478  0.661
1988 Emmons RA, King LA. Conflict among personal strivings: immediate and long-term implications for psychological and physical well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 54: 1040-8. PMID 3397863 DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.54.6.1040  0.674
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