Mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A review and recommendations for moving forward

LB Aknin, JE De Neve, EW Dunn… - Perspectives on …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
COVID-19 has infected millions of people and upended the lives of most humans on the
planet. Researchers from across the psychological sciences have sought to document and …

Effectiveness of positive psychology interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis

A Carr, K Cullen, C Keeney, C Canning… - The journal of positive …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A meta-analysis of positive psychology intervention (PPIs) studies was
conducted. PPIs were defined as interventions in which the goal of wellbeing enhancement …

Rewards of kindness? A meta-analysis of the link between prosociality and well-being.

BPH Hui, JCK Ng, E Berzaghi… - Psychological …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
In recent decades, numerous studies have suggested a positive relationship between
prosociality and well-being. What remains less clear are (a) what the magnitude of this …

How can people become happier? A systematic review of preregistered experiments

D Folk, E Dunn - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Can happiness be reliably increased? Thousands of studies speak to this question.
However, many of them were conducted during a period in which researchers commonly “p …

Psychiatric symptoms, risk, and protective factors among university students in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic in China

S Sun, SB Goldberg, D Lin, S Qiao, D Operario - Globalization and health, 2021 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has made unprecedented impact on the
psychological health of university students, a population vulnerable to distress and mental …

The neuroscience of empathy and compassion in pro-social behavior

F Stevens, K Taber - Neuropsychologia, 2021 - Elsevier
Research in the scientific literature increasingly demonstrates that empathy consists of
multiple dimensions, and that defining empathy as a single encompassing term may be …

Neural basis of prosocial behavior

YE Wu, W Hong - Trends in Neurosciences, 2022 - cell.com
The ability to behave in ways that benefit other individuals' well-being is among the most
celebrated human characteristics crucial for social cohesiveness. Across mammalian …

Rapid review and meta-meta-analysis of self-guided interventions to address anxiety, depression, and stress during COVID-19 social distancing

R Fischer, T Bortolini, JA Karl, M Zilberberg… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
We conducted a rapid review and quantitative summary of meta-analyses that have
examined interventions which can be used by individuals during quarantine and social …

Can positive and self-transcendent emotions promote pro-environmental behavior?

JM Zelenski, JE Desrochers - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
Many scholars have suggested that people could improve their well-being by develo**
closer connections with nature and that this would also promote the sustainable behaviors …

Does spending money on others promote happiness?: A registered replication report.

LB Aknin, EW Dunn, J Proulx, I Lok… - Journal of personality …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Research indicates that spending money on others—prosocial spending—leads to greater
happiness than spending money on oneself (eg, Dunn, Aknin, & Norton, 2008, 2014). These …