Research

 2024

• Rose, H., Sanders, S., Willett, C.m & King, L A. (2024). Target happiness attenuates perceivers' moral condemnation of prejudiced people. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241240160 

 2023

• Rose, H., Womick, J., & King, L A. (2023). Purpose maintained: Adverse childhood experiences and meaning in life. Journal of Personality, 00, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12820 

• Sanders, C. A., Rose, H., Booker, J. A., & King, L. A. (2023). Claiming the role of positive psychology in the fight against prejudice. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 1-14. 

• Womick, J., & King, L. A. (2023). Right‐wing authoritarianism and anti‐Asian prejudice in response to the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United States. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 53(12), 1202-1213. 

• Womick, J., & King, L. A. (2023). The Existential Challenge of Religious Pluralism: Religion, Politics, and Meaning in Life. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 1-16. 

 2022

• Sanders, C. A., Jenkins, A. T., & King, L. A. (2022). Pretty, meaningful lives: physical attractiveness and experienced and perceived meaning in life. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 1-17. 

• Womick, J., Woody, B., & King, L. A. (2022). Religious fundamentalism, right‐wing authoritarianism, and meaning in life. Journal of Personality, 90(2), 277-293. 

• Ward, S., Womick, J., Titova, L., & King, L. (2022). Meaning in Life and Coping With Everyday Stressors. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 01461672211068910. 

 2021

• Womick, J., & King, L. A. (2021). Testing Cognitive and Interpersonal Asymmetry vs. Symmetry Among Voters in the 2020 Presidential Primaries. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 9(2), 592-607. 

• Wilkinson, A. N., & King, L. A. (2021). 7 Lessons for Positive Arts and Humanities from the Science of Meaning in Life. In The Oxford Handbook of the Positive Humanities (p. 97). Oxford University Press. 

• Womick, J., Eckelkamp, J., Luzzo, S., Ward, S. J., Baker, S. G., Salamun, A., & King, L. A. (2021). Exposure to authoritarian values leads to lower positive affect, higher negative affect, and higher meaning in life. PloS one, 16(9), e0256759. 

• Womick, J., Woody, B., & King, L. A. (2021). Religious fundamentalism, right‐wing authoritarianism, and meaning in life. Journal of personality. 

• Ward, S. J., & King, L. A. (2021). Moral stereotypes, moral self-image, and religiosity. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 13(2), 160. 

• King, L. A., & Hicks, J. A. (2021). The science of meaning in life. Annual Review of Psychology, 72, 561-584. 

 2020

• Rose, H., & King, L. A. (2020). The Detection of Connections, the Experience of Meaning, and Adaptation. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 4(1), 47-50. 

• Heintzelman, S. J., Mohideen, F., Oishi, S., & King, L. A. (2020). Lay beliefs about meaning in life: Examinations across targets, time, and countries. Journal of Research in Personality, 88, 104003. 

• Womick, J., & King, L. A. (2020). Personality and Well‐being. The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences: Clinical, Applied, and Cross‐Cultural Research, 365-370. 

• Ward, S. J., & King, L. A. (2020). Examining the roles of intuition and gender in magical beliefs. Journal of Research in Personality, 86, 103956. 

• Womick, J., Atherton, B., & King, L. A. (2020). Lives of significance (and purpose and coherence): subclinical narcissism, meaning in life, and subjective well-being. Heliyon, 6(5), e03982. 

 2019

• Womick, J., Ward, S. J., Heintzelman, S. J., Woody, B., & King, L. A. (2019). The existential function of right‐wing authoritarianism. Journal of Personality, 87(5), 1056-1073. 

• Womick, J., Rothmund, T., Azevedo, F., King, L. A., & Jost, J. T. (2019). Group-based dominance and authoritarian aggression predict support for Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10(5), 643-652. 

• Womick, J., Foltz, R. M., & King, L. A. (2019). “Releasing the beast within”? Authenticity, well-being, and the Dark Tetrad. Personality and Individual Differences, 137, 115-125. 

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 2018

• Ward, S. J., & King, L. A. (2018). Individual differences in reliance on intuition predict harsher moral judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114(5), 825. 

• Sanders, C. A., & King, L. A. (2018). You Had Us at “Humans Do Not Have a General Need for Cognitive Consistency”. Psychological Inquiry, 29(2), 94-96.