Personality psychology, which seeks to study individual differences in thoughts, feelings,
and behaviors that persist over time and place, has experienced a renaissance in the last …

The study of prosocial behavior—altruism, cooperation, trust, and the related moral emotions—
has matured enough to produce general scholarly consensus that prosociality is …

A New York Times Bestseller What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In
their “captivating”(The Wall Street Journal) book, the directors of the Harvard Study of Adult …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 115 (4) of Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology (see record 2018-45703-004). In the article, there …

The social psychological literature on threat and defense is fragmented. Groups of
researchers have focused on distinct threats, such as mortality, uncertainty, uncontrollability …

Transactive goal dynamics (TGD) theory conceptualizes 2 or more interdependent people
as 1 single self-regulating system. Six tenets describe the nature of goal interdependence …

This multimethod series of studies merges the literatures on gratitude and risk regulation to
test a new process model of gratitude and relationship maintenance. We develop a measure …

The motivation to care for the welfare of others, or communal motivation, is a crucial
component of satisfying interpersonal relationships and personal well-being. The current …

Individuals who are homozygous for the G allele of the rs53576 SNP of the oxytocin receptor
(OXTR) gene tend to be more prosocial than carriers of the A allele. However, little is known …

Across three studies, we demonstrate that pursuing sex for approach goals, such as to
enhance intimacy, fuels satisfaction and pursuing sex for avoidance goals, such as to avoid …