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Publications

In Press

  • Seto, E., Kim, J., & Hicks, J. A. (in press). The illusion of time: Testing the bidirectional relationship between belief in free will and temporal horizons. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
  • Carter, J. E. M., Rivera, G. N. Heffer, R. W., & Schlegel, R. J. (In press). Stuck in an existential quagmire: The role of perceived true self-knowledge in client stuckness. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.
  • Hong, Z., Chen, C., Schlegel, R., Chen, K., & Liu, K. (In press). Spillover of authenticity from work to home: The mediating role of affect. European Journal of Social Psychology.
  • Kim, J., Christy, A. G., Rivera, G. N. Hicks, J. A. & Schlegel, R. J. (In press). Trust thyself: True-self-as-guide lay theories enhance decision satisfaction. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
  • Rivera, G. N., Vess, M., Hicks, J. A., & Routledge, C. (in press). Awe and meaning: Elucidating opposing mechanisms that link awe to the experience of meaning in life. European Journal of Social Psychology. 
  • Maffly-Kipp, J., Flanagan, P., Kim, J., Schlegel, R. J., Vess, M., & Hicks, J. A. (in press). The role of perceived authenticity in psychological recovery from collective trauma. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. 
  • Laird, V., Elliott, T., Brossart, D., Luo, W., Hicks, J. A., Warren, A., Foreman, M. (in press). Trajectories of affective balance 1 year after traumatic injury: Associations with resilience, social support, and mild traumatic brain injury. Journal of Happiness Studies. Download

2019

  • Zhang, H., Sang, Z., Chan, D. K. & Schlegel, R. J. (2019). Threats to belongingness and meaning in life: A test of the compensation among sources of meaning. Motivation and Emotion, 43, 242-254.
  • Zhang, H., *Chen, K., Schlegel, R. J., & Hicks, J. A. (2019). The Authentic Moral Self: Dynamic Interplay between Perceived Authenticity and Moral Behaviors in the Workplace. Collabra: Psychology, 5(1), 48. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.260.
  • Schlegel, R. J., Chu, S. L., Chen, K., Deuermeyer, E., Christy, A. G., & Quek, F. (2019). Making in the classroom:  Longitudinal evidence of increases in self-efficacy and STEM possible selves over time. Computers and Education, 142, 103637.
  • Vess., M., Schlegel, R. J., Brooker, R. J., & Hicks, J. A. (2019). Daily mental lapses and the experience of true self alienation. Journal of Research in Personality, 78, 148-152. Download
  • Vess, M., Brooker, R. J., Stichter, M., & Neiderhiser, J. M. (2019). Genes and virtue: Exploring how heritability beliefs shape conceptions of virtue and its development. Behavior Genetics, 49, 168-174. Download
  • Rivera, G. N., Christy, A. G., Kim, J., Vess, M., Hicks, J. A., & Schlegel, R. J. (2019). Understanding the relationship between authenticity and positive psychological functioning: A lay theory approach. Review of General Psychology, 23, 113-126.
  • Vess, M. (2019). Varieties of conscious experience and the subjective awareness of one’s true self. Review of General Psychology, 23, 89-98. Download
  • Rivera, G., Smith, C., & Schlegel, R. J. (2019). Window to the true self: The importance of I-sharing in romantic relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36, 1640-1650. Download
  • Kim, J., Chen, K., Davis, W. E, Hicks, J.A., & Schlegel, R. J. (2019). Approaching the true-self: Promotion focus predicts the experience of authenticity. Journal of Research in Personality, 78, 165-176. Download
  • Rivera, G.N, Christy, A.G., Kim, J., Vess, M., Hicks, J.A., & Schlegel, R. J. (2019). Understanding the relationship between perceived authenticity and well-being. Review of General Psychology, 23, 113-126. Download
  • Christy, A. G., Schlegel, R. J., & Cimpian, A. (2019). Why do people believe in a “true self”? The role of essentialist reasoning about personal identity and the self. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117, 386-416.
  • Kim, J., Seto, E., Schlegel, R. J., & Hicks, J. A. (2019). Thinking about a new decade in life increases personal self-reflection: A replication and reinterpretation of Alter and Hershfield’s (2014) findings. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117, e27-e34. Download
  • Zhang, H., Chen, K., & Schlegel R. J. (2019). Intrinsic aspirations, person-environment fit, meaning in work and meaning in life: A moderated mediation model. Journal of Happiness Studies, 20, 1481-1497. 

2018

  • Klein, R. A., Vianello, M., Hasselman, F., Adams, B. G., Adams, R. B., Davis, W. E., Hicks, J. A., (2018). Many labs 2: Investigating variation in replicability across sample and setting.  Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 1, 443-490. Download
  • Zhang, H., Chen, K., & Schlegel R. J.  (2018). How do people judge meaning in goal-directed behaviors: The interplay between self-concordance and performance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44, 1582-1600. Download
  • Vess. M. (2018). A broader look at terror management, death, and belief in the supernatural. Religion, Brain, and Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2017.1414710
  • Vess, M., Hoeldtke, R., Leal, S. A., Sanders, C., & Hicks, J.A. (2018). The subjective quality of episodic future thought contributes to the experience of meaning in life. Journal of Positive Psychology, 13, 419-428 Download
  • Seto, E. & Schlegel, R. J. (2018). Becoming your true self: Perceptions of authenticity across the lifespan, Self & Identity, 17, 310-326. Download
  • De Frietas, J., Cikara, M., Grossman, I. & Schlegel, R. (2018) Moral goodness is the essence of personal identity. Trends in Cognitive Science, 22, 739-740. Download
  • Kim, J., Christy, A. G., Rivera, G. N., Schlegel, R. J., & Hicks, J. A. (2018). Following one’s true self and the sacredness of cultural values. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 76, 100-103. Download
  • Vess. M. (2018). A broader look at terror management, death, and belief in the supernatural. Religion, Brain, and Behavior. Download
  • Quirin, M., Wróbel, M., Norcini Pala, A., Stieger, S., Shanchuan, D., Hicks, J. A..,… & Kuhl, J. (2018). A cross-cultural validation of the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT): Results from ten nations across three continents. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. 34, 52-63. Download
  •  Kim, J., Christy, A. G., Schlegel, R. J., Donnellen, M. B., & Hicks, J. A. (2018). Existential ennui: The reciprocal relationship between self-alienation and academic amotivation among college students. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 9, 853-862. Download
  • Davis, W. E., Hicks, J. A.,  Foster, C. L., Holub, M. K., Krecek, R. C., & Richburg, A. W. (2018) Attitudes and motivations of owners who enroll pets in pet life-care centers, Anthrozoös, 31, 211-219. Download

2017

  • Christy, A. G., Kim, J., Schlegel, R. J. Vess, M., & Hicks, J. A. (in press). The reciprocal relationship between perceptions of moral goodness and knowledge of others’ true selves. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 910-917. Download
  • Bench, S.W., Rivera, G. N., Schlegel, R. J., Hicks, J. A., & Lench, H. C. (2017). Does Expertise Matter in Replication? An Examination of the Reproducibility Project: Psychology. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 68, 181-184. Download
  • Schlegel, R. J. & Hicks, J. A. (in press). Reflections on the scientific study of meaning in life. Journal of Constructivist Psychology. Download
  • Christy, A. G., Sanders, C., Vess, M., Routledge, C., & Schlegel, R. J. (2017). The true self and existential structure? Unexpected effects of mortality salience and need for structure on belief in the true self. Self and Identity, 3, 335-352. Download
  • Vess, M. Rogers, R., Routledge, C., & Hicks, J. A. (in press). When being far away is good: Exploring how mortality salience, regulatory mode, and goal progress affect judgments of meaning in life. European Journal of Social Psychology. Download
  • Chu, S., Schlegel, R. J., Quek, F., Christy, A. G., & Chen, K. (2017). ‘I Make, Therefore I Am’: The Effects of Curriculum Aligned Making on Children’s Self-Identity. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17). Denver, CO. ACM. Download

2016

  • Christy, A.G., Seto, E., Schlegel, R.J., Vess, M., & Hicks, J.A. (2016). Straying from the righteous path and from ourselves: Moral behavior and perceived self- knowledge. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 1538-1550. Download
  • Vess, M., Leal, S. A., Hoeldtke, R. T., Schlegel, R. J., & Hicks, J. A. (in press).True self-alienation postitively predicts mindwanderng. Consciousness and Cognition, 45, 89-99.  Download
  • Seto, E., & Hicks, J.A. (2016). Disassociating the agent from the self: Undermining belief in free will diminishes true self-knowledge. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7, 726-734. Download
  • Seto, E., Hicks, J.A., Vess, M. & Geraci, L. (2016). The association between vivid thoughts of death and authenticity. Motivation and Emotion, 40, 520-540. Download
  • Bettencourt, B. A., Manning, M., Molix, L., Schlegel, R., Eidelman, S. & Biernat, M. (2016). Explaining extremity in evaluation of group members: Meta-analytic tests of three theories. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 20, 49-74. Download
  • Rogers, R., Vess, M., & Routledge, C. (2016). Construal level shapes associations between ideology and reactions to male same sex intimacy.  Social Psychology, 47, 87-97.
  • Rogers, R., Vess, M., Routledge, C., & Juhl, J. (2016).  An easy feeling: Mortality salience decreases social exploration when examples of cultural value adherence are easy to generate. Self & Identity, 15, 62-71. Download
  • Begnoche, J. P., Brooker, R. J., & Vess, M. (2016). EEG asymmetry and ERN: Behavioral outcomes in preschoolers. PLoS ONE, 11(5), e0155713. PMCID: PMC4880182 Download
  • Ebersole, C. R., Atherton, O. E., Belanger, A. L., Skulborstad, H. M., Adams, R. B.,…Davis, W.E.,…Hicks, J.A.,…(2016). Many Labs 3: Evaluating participant pool quality across the academic semester via replication. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 67, 68-82. Download
  • Kelley, N. J., Davis, W. E., Kim, J., Tang, D., & Hicks, J. A. (2016). Motivating the academic mind: Abstract construal of academic goals enhances motivation. Motivation and Emotion, 42, 193-202. Download
  • Kim, J., Seto, E., Christy, A. G., & Hicks, J. A. (2016). Investing in the real me: Preference for experiential purchases to material purchases driven by the motivation to search for true self-knowledge. Self and Identity, 15, 727-747. Download
  • Kim, J., & Hicks, J. A. (2016). Happiness begets children? Evidence for a bi-directional link between well-being and number of children. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 11(1), 62-69. Download
  • Kim, J., Hong, E. K., Choi, I., & Hicks, J. A. (2016). Companion versus comparison: Examining seeking social companionship or social comparison as characteristics that differentiate happy and unhappy people. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 311–322. Download
  • Mechin, N., Gable, P. A., &  Hicks, J. A. (2016). Frontal asymmetry and alcohol cue reactivity: Influence of core personality systems. Psychophysiology, 53, 1223-1231. Download
  • Salter, P. S., Hirsch, K. A., Schlegel, R. J. & Thai, L. (2016). Who Needs Individual Responsibility? Audience Race and Message Content Influence Third-Party Evaluations of Political Messages. Social Psychology and Personality Science, 7, 29-36. Download
  • Williams, H., & Vess, M. (2016). Daydreams and the true self: Daydreaming styles are related to authenticity. Imagination, Cognition, & Personality, 36, 128-149. Download
  • Christy, A. G., Hirsch, K. A., & Schlegel, R. J. (2016). Animal magnetism: Metaphoric cues alter perceptions of romantic partners and relationships. PLOS One, 11, e0155943. Link
  • Darbor, K. E., & Lench, H. C., Davis, W. E., & Hicks, J. A. (2016). Experiencing versus contemplating: Language use during descriptions of awe and wonder. Cognition and Emotion, 30, 1188-1196. Download
  • Davis, W. E., & Hicks, J. A. (2016). Judgments of meaning in life, religious beliefs, and the experience of cognitive (dis)fluency. The Journal of Personality. 84, 291-305. Download

2015

  • Hicks, J. A., Fields, S., Davis, W. E., & Gable, P. (2015). Heavy drinking, impulsivity and attentional narrowing following alcohol cue exposure. Psychopharmacology, 15(232), 2773-2779. Download
  • Gable, P. A., Mechin, N., Adams, D. L., & Hicks, J. A. (2015). Supervisory control system and frontal asymmetry: Neurophysiological traits of emotion-based impulsivity. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 10(10), 1310-1315. Download
  • McCabe, S., Arndt, J., Goldenberg, J. L., Vess, M., Vail III, K. E., Gibbons, F. X., & Rogers, R. (2015). The effect of visualizing healthy eaters and mortality reminders on nutritious grocery purchases: An integrative terror management and prototype willingness analysis. Health Psychology, 34, 279-232. Download
  • Kim, J., & Hicks J. A. (2015). Parental bereavement and the loss of purpose in life as a function of interdependent self-construal. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1078. Download
  • Seto, E., Hicks, J. A., Davis, W. E., & Smallman, R. (2015). Free will, counterfactual reflection, and the meaningfulness of life events. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 243-250. Download
  • Davis, W. E., Hicks, J. A., Schlegel, R. J., Smith, C. M., & Vess, M. (2015). Authenticity and self-esteem across temporal horizons. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 10, 116-126. Download
  • Schmeichel, B. J., Caskey, R., & Hicks, J. A. (2015). Rational versus experiential processing of negative feedback reduces defensiveness but induces ego depletion. Self and Identity, 14, 75-89. Download
  • Bench, S., Schlegel, R. J., Davis, W. E., & Vess, M. (2015). Thinking about change in the self and others: The role of self-discovery metaphors and the true self. Social Cognition, 33, 169-185. Download
  • Cicero , D. C., Hicks, J. A., & King, L. A. (2015). Extracting meaning from experience: The role of positive affect and individual differences in intuition. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 34, 398-414. Download

2014

  • Vess, M., Schlegel, R. J., Hicks, J. A., & Arndt, J. (2014). Guilty, but not ashamed: “True” self-conceptions influence affective responses to personal shortcomings. Journal of Personality, 82, 213-224. Download
  • Kim, J., Kang, P., & Choi, I. (2014). Pleasure now, meaning later: Temporal dynamics between pleasure and meaning. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 55, 262-270. Download
  • Klein, R. A., Ratliff, K. A., Vianello, M., Adams, R. B., Jr., Bahník, Š., . . . Davis, W. E., . . . Hicks, J. A., . . . (2014). Investigating variation in replicability: A “many labs” replication project. Social Psychology, 45. 142-152. Link

2013

  • Schlegel, R. J., Hicks, J. A., Davis, W. E., Hirsch, K. A., & Smith, C. M. (2013). The dynamic interplay between perceived true self-knowledge and decision satisfaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 542-558. Download
  • Schlegel, R. J., Manning, M. A., & Bettencourt, B. A. (2013). Expectancy violations and the search for meaning among breast cancer survivors. Journal of Positive Psychology, 8, 387-394. Download
  • Davis, W. E., & Hicks, J. A. (2013). Maintaining hope at the 11th hour: Authenticity buffers the effect of limited time perspective on hope. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 1634-1646. Download
  • Lambert, N. M., Stillman, T. F., Hicks, J. A., Baumeister, R. F., Gamble, S., & Fincham, F. D. (2013). To belong is to matter: Sense of belonging enhances meaning in life. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 1418-1427. Download
  • Routledge, C., Juhl, J., Vess, M., Cathey, C., & Liao, J. (2013). Who uses groups to transcend the limits of the individual self? Exploring the effects of interdependent self-construal and mortality salience on investment in social groups. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 483-491. Download
  • Routledge, C., Juhl, J., & Vess, M. (2013). Mortality salience increases death-anxiety for individuals low in personal need for structure. Motivation and Emotion, 37, 303-307. Download
  • Vess, M. (2013). Foundations of meaning: Death, the need for unambiguous knowledge, and the construction and maintenance of multi-level meaning. In J. A. Hicks & C. Routledge (Eds.), The experience of meaning in life: Emerging themes and controversies (pp. 271-283). New York: Springer Press.
  • Arndt, J., Landau, M. J., Vail III, K.E., & Vess, M. (2013). An edifice for enduring personal value: A terror management perspective on the human quest for multi-level meaning. In K. Markman, T. Proulx, & M. Lindberg (Eds.), The Psychology of Meaning. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

2012

  • Hicks, J. A, Trent, J., Davis, W. E., & King, L. A. (2012). Positive affect, meaning in life, & future time perspective: An application of socioemotional selectivity theory. Psychology and Aging, 27, 181-189. Download
  • Talley, A. E., Kocum, L., Schlegel, R. J., Molix, L., & Bettencourt, B. A. (2012). Social roles, basic need satisfaction, and psychological health: The central role of competence. Personality and Social Psychological Bulletin, 38, 155-173. Download
  • Schlegel, R. J., Vess, M. K., & Arndt, J. A. (2012). To discover or to create: Metaphors and the true self. Journal of Personality, 80, 969-993. Download
  • Hicks, J. A., Friedman, R. F., Gable, P., & Davis, W. E. (2012). Interactive effects of approach motivational intensity and alcohol cues on the scope of perceptual attention. Addiction, 107, 1074-1080. Download
  • Schlegel, R. J., Manning, M. A., Molix, L. A., Talley, A. E., & Bettencourt, B. A. (2012). Predictors of depressive symptoms among breast cancer patients during the first year post diagnosis. Psychology and Health, 27, 277-293. Download
  • Vess, M. (2012). Warm thoughts: Attachment-anxiety and sensitivity to temperature cues. Psychological Science, 23, 472-474. Download
  • Vess, M., Arndt, J., & Cox, C. R. (2012). Faith and nature: The effect of death-relevant cognitions on the relationship between religious fundamentalism and connectedness to nature. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 333-340. Download
  • Vess, M., Arndt, J., Routledge, C., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2012). Nostalgia as a resource for the self. Self & Identity, 11, 273-284. Download
  • Routledge, C., & Vess, M. (2012). More than meets the eye: There’s more to meaning maintenance than violated expectations. Psychological Inquiry, 23, 374-380. Download
  • Vail III, K. E., Juhl, J., Arndt, J., Vess, M., Routledge, C., & Rutjens, B. T. (2012). When death is good for life: Exploring the positive trajectories of terror management. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 16, 303-329. Download 
  • Vail, III, K. E., Kosloff, S., Vess, M., & Ashish, D. (2012). Faith and finitude: Exhuming the death-denying function of religious belief. To appear in P. McNamara & W. J. Wildman (Eds.), Science and the world’s religions: Volume 3: Religions and controversies (pp. 291-320). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers. Download 

2011

  • Schlegel, R. J., Hicks, J. A., King, L. A., & Arndt, J. (2011). Feeling like you know who you are: Perceived true self-knowledge and meaning in life. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 745-756. Download
  • Vess, M., Arndt, J., & Schlegel, R. J. (2011) Abstract construal levels attenuate state self-esteem reactivity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Download
  • Schlegel, R. J., & Hicks, J. A. (2011). The true self and psychological health: Emerging evidence and future directions. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5, 989-1003. Download
  • Landau, M. J., Vess, M., Arndt, J. Rothschild, Z. K., Sullivan, D., & Atchley, R. A. (2011). Embodiment and the intrinsic self: Priming entity expansion heightens expression of the intrinsic self-concept in self-perceptions and interpersonal behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 79-87. Download

2006-2010

  • Hicks, J. A., Cicero, D. C., Trent, J., Burton, C. B., & King, L. A. (2010). Positive affect, intuition, and feelings of meaning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 967-979.  Download
  • Hicks, J. A., Schlegel, R.J., & King, L. A. (2010). Social threats, happiness, and the dynamics of meaning in life judgments. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1305-1317. Download
  • Lambert, N. M., Stillman, T. F., Baumeister, R. F., Fincham, F. D., Hicks, J. A., & Graham, S. M. (2010). Family as a Salient Source of Meaning in Young Adulthood. Journal of Positive Psychology, 5, 367-376. Download
  • Hicks, J. A., & King, L. A. (2010). Subliminal mere exposure and explicit and implicit positive affective responses. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 726-729. Download
  • Talley, A E., Molix, L., Schlegel, R. J. & Bettencourt, B. A. (2010). Perceived partner social support and need satisfaction on depression symptoms. Psychology and Health, 25, 433-449. Download
  • Henry, E. A., Schlegel, R. J., Talley, A., Molix, L. A. & Bettencourt, B. A. (2010). The feasibility and effectiveness of expressive writing for rural and urban breast cancer survivors. Oncology Nursing Forum, 37, 749-757. Download
  • Hicks, J. A, & King, L. A. (2009). Meaning in life as a subjective judgment and lived experience. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 3, 638-653. Download
  • Vess, M., Routledge, C., Landau, M. J., & Arndt, J. (2009). The dynamics of death and meaning: The effects of death-relevant cognitions and personal need for structure on perceptions of meaning in life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 728-744.Download
  • Vess, M., & Arndt, J. (2008). The nature of death and the death of nature: The impact of mortality salience on environmental concern. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1376-1380. Download
  • Routledge, C., Arndt, J., Vess, M., & Sheldon, K. (2008). The life and death of creativity: The effects of mortality salience on self vs. social-directed creative expression. Motivation & Emotion, 32, 331-338.  Download
  • King, L. A. Hicks, J. A., & Abdelkhalik, J. (2009). Death, Life, Scarcity, and Value: An alternative perspective on the meaning of death. Psychological Science, 20, 1459-1462.  Download
  • King, L. A. & Hicks, J. A. (2009). Positive affect, intuition, and referential thinking. Personality and Individual Differences, 46, 719-724. Download
  • Schlegel, R.J., Talley, A.E., Molix, L.A., & Bettencourt, B.A. (2009). Rural Breast Cancer Patients, Coping and Depression: A Prospective Comparison Study. Psychology and Health, 24, 933-948. Download
  • Schlegel, R. J., Hicks, J. A., Arndt, J. & King, L. A. (2009). Thine own self: True self-concept accessibility and meaning in life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 473-490. Download
  • Hicks, J. A., & King, L. A. (2009). Positive mood and social relatedness as information about meaning in life. Journal of Positive Psychology, 4, 471-482. Download
  • Bettencourt, B.A., Talley, A.E., Molix, L.A., & Schlegel, R.J. (2008). Rural Breast Cancer Patients: Distinct associations between personal resources and psychological adjustment. Psycho-Oncology, 17, 932-939. Download
  • Hicks, J. A., & King, L.A. (2008). Religious commitment and positive mood as information about meaning in life. Journal of Research in Personality, 64, 139-152. Download
  • Bettencourt, B.A., Schlegel, R.J., Talley, A., & Molix, L.A. (2007). The breast cancer experience of rural women: A literature review. Psycho-Oncology, 16, 875-887. Download
  • Friedman, R. S., McCarthy, D. M., Bartholow, B. D., & Hicks J. A. (2007). Interactive effects of alcohol outcome expectancies and suboptimal alcohol cues on non-consumptive behavior. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 15, 102-114. Download
  • Hicks, J. A., & King, L. A. (2007). Meaning in life and seeing the big picture: Positive affect and global focus. Cognition and Emotion, 21, 1577 – 1584. Download
  • King, L. A., Burton, C. B., Hicks, J. A., & Dragotis, S. (2007). Ghosts, UFOs, and magic: Positive affect and the experiential system. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 905-919. Download
  • King, L. A., & Hicks, J. A. (2007). Whatever happened to “what might have been?” Regret, happiness, and maturity. American Psychologist, 62, 625 -636. Download
  • King, L. A., Hicks, J. A., Krull, J., & Del Gaiso, A. K. (2006). Positive affect and the experience of meaning in life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 179-196. Download 
  • King, L. A., & Hicks, J. A. (2006). Narrating the self in the past and the future: Implications for maturity. Research in Human Development, 3, 121-138. Download

Books, Chapters, and Other Publications

  • Klein, R. A., Ratliff, K. A., Vianello, M., Adams, R. B., Jr., Bahník, S., Bernstein, M. J., . . ., Davis, W. E., . . ., Hicks, J. A., . . . (2014). Data from investigating variation in replicability: A “many labs” replication project. The Journal of Open Psychology Data, 2.1. Link
  • Kim, J., Seto, E., Davis, W. E., & Hicks, J. A. (2014). Positive and existential psychological approaches to the experience of meaning in life. In P. Russo-Netzer & A. Batthyany (Eds.), Meaning in Existential and Positive Psychology (pp.221-233). New York: Springer Press.
  • Hicks, J. A. & Routledge, C. Eds. (2013). The Experience of Meaning in Life: Classical Perspectives, Emerging Themes, and Controversies. New York: Springer Press. Link
  • Davis, W. E., & Hicks, J. A. (2013). Meaning in life judgment processes following existential crises. In Hicks, J. A., & Routledge, C. (Eds.), The Experience of Meaning in Life: Classical Perspectives, Emerging Themes, and Controversies. New York: Springer Press.
  • Schlegel, R. J., Smith, C. M.,& Hirsch, K. A. (2013). Examining the true self as a wellspring of meaning. In Hicks, J. A. & Routledge C. (Eds.), The Experience of Meaning in Life: Classical Perspectives, Emerging Themes, and Controversies (177-188). New York: Springer Press.
  • Hicks, J. A., & Routledge, C. (2013). The experience of meaning in life: An introduction to an age-old question. In Hicks, J. A., & Routledge, C. (Eds.), The Experience of Meaning in Life: Classical Perspectives, Emerging Themes, and Controversies. New York: Springer Press.
  • Tang, D., Kelley, N. J., Hicks, J. A., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2013). Emotions and meaning in life: A motivational perspective. In Hicks, J. A., & Routledge, C. (Eds.), The Experience of Meaning in Life: Classical Perspectives, Emerging Themes, and Controversies. New York: Springer Press.
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