Ed Diener
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
603 East Daniel Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
U.S.A.
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Ed Diener received his bachelor's degree in 1968 at California State University at Fresno. He worked two years as an administrator for Kings View Community Mental Health Center. He attended the Ph.D. program in personality psychology at the University of Washington from 1970 to 1974, and conducted his dissertation research on deindividuation. Diener had three major mentors during graduate school: Irwin Sarason, Ronald E. Smith, and Scott Fraser. Ed Diener is the Joseph R. Smiley Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the
University of Illinois. He received his doctorate at the University of Washington in
1974, and has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois for the past 34 years.
Dr. Diener was the president of both the International Society of Quality of Life Studies
and the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. He was the editor of the Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, and the editor of Journal of Happiness Studies. Diener
is the founding editor of Perspectives on Psychological Science. He has over 240
publications, with about 190 being in the area of the psychology of well-being. Dr. Diener is a fellow of five professional societies. Professor Diener is listed
as one of the most highly cited psychologists by the Institute of Scientific Information,
with over 12,000 citations to his credit. He won the Distinguished Researcher Award from
the International Society of Quality of Life Studies, the first Gallup Academic
Leadership Award, and the Jack Block Award for Personality Psychology. Dr. Diener has won
several teaching awards, including the Oakley-Kundee Award for Undergraduate Teaching at
the University of Illinois. Professor Diener's research focuses on the measurement of well-being;
temperament and personality influences on well-being; theories of well-being; income and
well-being; and cultural influences on well-being. He has edited three recent books on
subjective well-being, and a 2005 book on multi-method measurement in psychology. Diener
is currently writing a popular book on happiness with his son, Robert Biswas-Diener, and
authoring a book on policy uses of accounts of well-being with Richard Lucas, Ulrich
Schimmack, and John Helliwell.
 Books:
- Diener, E., & Biswas-Diener, R. (2008). Rethinking happiness: The science of psychological wealth. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
- Eid, M., & Diener, E. (Eds.). (2006). Handbook of multimethod measurement in psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
 Kahneman, D., Diener, E., & Schwarz, N. (Eds.). (2003). Well-being: The foundations of hedonic psychology. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Journal Articles:
- Diener, E. (2006). Guidelines for national indicators of subjective well-being and ill-being. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 1, 151-157. On-line June 2006. (Appearing also in Social Indicators Research, Journal of Happiness Studies: An Interdisciplinary Periodical on Subjective Well-Being, SINET, and other outlets.)
- Diener, E. (2000). Subjective well-being: The science of happiness, and a proposal for a national index. American Psychologist, 55, 34-43.
- Diener, E., Diener, M., & Diener, C. (1995). Factors predicting the subjective well-being of nations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 851-864.
- Diener, E., Lucas, R., & Scollon, C. N. (2006). Beyond the hedonic treadmill: Revising the adaptation theory of well-being. American Psychologist, 61, 305-314.
- Diener, E., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2004). Beyond money: Toward an economy of well-being. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 5, 1-31.
- Diener, E., Suh, E. M., Lucas, R. E., & Smith, H. L. (1999). Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 276-302.
- Diener, E., & Tov, W. (2007). Subjective well-being and peace. Journal of Social Issues, 63, 421-440.
- Lyubomirsky, S., King, L., & Diener, E. (2005). The benefits of frequent positive affect: Does happiness lead to success? Psychological Bulletin, 131, 803-855.
- Myers, D. G., & Diener, E. (1996). The pursuit of happiness. Scientific American, 70-72.
- Oishi, S., Diener, E., & Lucas, R. (2007). The optimum level of well-being: Can people be too happy? Perspectives on Psychological Science 2(4), 346-360.
- Pavot, W., & Diener, E. (2008). The Satisfaction With Life Scale and the emerging construct of life satisfaction. Journal of Positive Psychology, 3, 137-152.
Other Publications:
- Diener, E., & Tov, W. (2007). Culture and subjective well-being. In S. Kitayama & D. Cohen (Eds.), Handbook of cultural psychology, 691-713. New York: Guilford.
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