Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications: 

1. Love S. & Titova L. (2024). Motivated gifts: A self-determination perspective. Modern Psychological Studies, 30 (1). 🔗

2. Titova L. & King L. A. (in press). Can happiness make a house a home? Journal of Positive Psychology. 

3. Sheldon K. M. & Titova L. (2023). Social Media Use and Well-Being: Testing an integrated Self-determination theory model. Media Psychology, 26(6), 637–659. 

4. Sheldon K. M., Goffredi R., & Titova L. (in press). The Creative Breakthrough Model of Goal Reorientation: Explicit questions drive implicit processes. Journal of Research in Personality. 

5. Ward, S.J., Womick, J.J., Titova, L., & King, L.A. (2023). Meaning in life and coping with everyday stressors. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,  49(3), 460-476. 🔗

6. Sheldon K. M., Titova L., Osin E., & Bratcher B. (2022). Understanding the Motivations of Food Bank Volunteers: Applying self-determination theory and functional motivations theory. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology.

7. Sheldon K. M., Osin E., Lapka S., Rasskazova E., Titova L., Khrushev S., Vybornykh D., & Gaponova T. (2022). Blood Donation Motivation in the U.S. and Russia: What Keeps Donors Coming Back? Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 32(5), 872-881. 

8. Titova L. & Sheldon K. M. (2022). Happiness comes from trying to make others feel good, rather than oneself. Journal of Positive Psychology, 17(1), 21-33. 🔗

9. Titova L. & Sheldon K. M. (2022). Thwarted Beneficence: Not Getting to Help Lowers Mood. Journal of Positive Psychology, 17(3), 341-355. 🔗

10. Sheldon K. M., Corcoran M., & Titova L. (2021). Supporting one’s own autonomy may be more important than feeling supported by others. Motivation Science, 7(2), 176-186. 🔗

11. Sheldon K. M., Gordeeva T., Sychev O., Osin E., & Titova L. (2020). Self-Concordant goals breed goal-optimism and thus well-being. Current Psychology, 1-9. 🔗

12. Sheldon K. M., Holliday G., Titova L., & Benson C. (2020). Comparing Holland and Self-determination theory measures of career preference as predictors of career choice. Journal of Career Assessment, 28(1), 28-41. 🔗 

13. Sheldon K. M., Sedikides C., Ntoumanis N., Corcoran M., & Titova L. (2019). Narcissism and social motives: successful pursuit of egosystem goals boosts grandiose narcissism. Self and Identity, 19(7), 841-862. 🔗

14. Titova L. & Sheldon K. M. (2018). Why Do I Feel This Way? Attributional Assessment of Happiness and Unhappiness. Journal of Positive Psychology, 14(5), 1-14. 🔗

15. Titova L., Werner, K. M., & Sheldon K. M. (2018). Translating Positive Psychology. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 4(3), 211-214. 🔗

16.  Titova L., Wagstaff A., & Parks A. C. (2017). Disentangling the Effects of Gratitude and Optimism: A Cross-Cultural Investigation. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 48(5), 754-770. 🔗

17. Sheldon K. M., Titova L., Gordeeva T. O., Osin E. N., Lyubomirsky S., & Bogomaz, S. (2017). Russians Inhibit the Expression of Happiness to Strangers: Testing a Display Rule Model. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 48(5), 718-733. 🔗

Book Chapters: 

1. Titova, L. (in press). Fear of Happiness. In S.D. Pressman & A.C. Parks (Eds.) Activities for Teaching Positive Psychology: A Guide for Instructors (Volume 2). American Psychological Association. 

2. Parks A. C. & Titova L. (2016). Positive Psychology Interventions: An Overview. In A. Woods & J. Johnson (Eds.), The Wiley Handbook of Positive Clinical Psychology: An Integrative Approach to Studying and Improving Well-being (pp. 307-320). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. 🔗