Middlebush Professor, Editor, JPSP:PPID 204A McAlester (573) 239-7729 kingla@missouri.edu Lab: Personality Dynamics Lab

Personality Psychology, Well-being, Motivation, Meaning in Life, Social Cognitive Factors in Well-being Judgments; Individual Differences in Intuitive Information Processing, Narrative Approaches to Personality and Identity, The Psychology of The Good Life

Hicks, J.A., Trent, J., Davis, W. & King, L. A. (in press). Positive affect, meaning in life, and future time perspective: An application of Socioemotional Selectivity Theory. Psychology and Aging.

Schlegel, R. 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.

King, L. A., & Geise, A. C. (2011). Being forgotten: Implications for the experience of meaning in life. Journal of Social Psychology, 151, 1-14.

Hicks, J. A., & King, L. A. (2011). Subliminal mere exposure and explicit and implicit positive affective responses. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 726-729.

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.

Hicks, J. A., Cicero, D. C., Trent, J., Burton, C. M., & King, L. A. (2010). Positive Affect, Intuition,
and the Feeling of Meaning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 967-979.

King, L. A., Hicks, J.A., Abdelkhalik, J. (2009). Death, Life, Scarcity, and Value: An alternative
approach to the meaning of death. Psychological Science, 20, 1459-1462.

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.

Biswas-Diener, R., Kashdan, T., & King, L. A. (2009). Two traditions of happiness research, not two
distinct types of happiness. Journal of Positive Psychology, 4, 208-211.

King, L. A., & Hicks, J. A. (2009). Positive Affect, Intuition, and Referential Thinking. Personality and
Individual Differences, 46, 719-724.

King, L. A. & Hicks, J. A. (2009). The detection and construction of meaning in life events. Journal
of Positive Psychology, 4, 317-330.

Schlegel, R., Hicks, J. A., Arndt, J., & King, L. A. (2009). Thine Own Self: True Self Accessibility and
Meaning in Life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 473-490.

Kashdan, T. B., Biswas-Diener, R., & King, L. A. (2008). Reconsidering happiness: The costs of
distinguishing between hedonics and eudaimonia. Journal of Positive Psychology, 8, 219-233.

Burton, C. M., & King, L. A. (2008). The effects of (very) brief writing on health: The 2-minute
miracle. British Journal of Health Psychology, 13, 9-14.

Hicks, J. A., & King, L. A. (2008). Mood and religion as information about meaning in life.
Journal of Research in Personality, 42,43-57.

King, L. A., & Hicks, J. A. (2007). Whatever happened to “what might have been”? Regret, happiness, and maturity. American Psychologist,62, 625-636.

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.

King, L. A., Burton, C. M, Hicks, J. A, & Drigotas, S. M. (2007). Ghosts, UFOs, and Magic: Positive
Affect and the Experiential System. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 905-919.

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.