Yonsei University


Happiness & Cultural Psychology Lab





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As of 2008, Dr. Suh's papers have been

cited over 2,000 times (ref: http://www.scopus.com/)



Representative Papers


  • Suh, E. M., & Koo, J. (2008). Comparing subjective well-being across cultures and nations: The "what" and "why" questions. In M. Eid & R. J. Larsen (Eds.), The science of subjective well-being (pp. 414-427). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
  • Suh, E. M. (2007). The downsides of an overly context-sensitive self: Implications from the culture and subjective well-being research. Journal of Personality, 75, 1321-1343.a[pdf]
  • Suh, E. M. (2002). Culture, identity consistency, and subjective well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 1378-1391. [pdf]
    • reprinted in Funder, D. C., & Ozer, D. J. (2004). Pieces of the personality puzzle: Readings in theory and research. New York: Norton.
    • "Best Dissertation Award" from the International Society of Quality of Life Studies (ISQOL). 2001
  • Triandis, H. C., & Suh, E. M. (2002). Cultural influences on personality. Annual Review of Psychology, 53, 133-160. [pdf]
  • Lucas, R. E., Diener, E., Grob, A., Suh, E. M., & Shao, L. (2000). Cross-cultural evidence for the fundamental features of extraversion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 452-468. [pdf]
  • Suh, E. M. (2000). Self, the hyphen between culture and subjective well-being. In E. Diener & E. M. Suh (Eds.), Culture and subjective well-being (pp. 63-86). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Diener, E., Suh, E. M., Lucas, R., & Smith, H. (1999). Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 276-302. [pdf]
  • Suh, E., Diener, E., Oishi, S., & Triandis, H.C. (1998). The shifting basis of life satisfaction judgments across cultures: Emotions versus norms. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 482-493. [pdf]
  • Diener, E., & Suh, E. M. (1999). National differences in subjective well-being. In D. Kahneman, E. Diener, & N. Schwarz (Eds.), Well-being: The science of hedonic psychology (pp.434-450). New York: Sage.
  • Diener, E., & Suh, E. (1997). Measuring quality of life: Economic, social, and subjective indicators. Social Indicators Research, 40, 189-216. [pdf]
  • Suh, E., Diener, E., & Fujita, F. (1996). Events and subjective well-being: Only recent events matter. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 1091-1102. [pdf]


                          
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2011


Kim, H. S., Sherman, D. K., Mojaverian, T., Sasaki, J. Y., Park, J., Suh, E. M., Taylor, S. E. (2011). Gene-culture interaction: Oxytocin receptor polymorphism (OXTR) and emotion regulation. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 665-672.

Koo, J., & Suh, E. M. (2011). Happiness in Korea: Who is happy and when? Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 25, 143-166. [in Korean]

Suh, E. M., & Koo, J. (2011). A Concise Measure of Subjective Well-Being(COMOSWB): Scale development and validation. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 25, 96-114. [in Korean]



2010

Updegraff, J. A., Emanuel, A. S., Suh, E. M., & Gallagher, K. M. (2010). Sheltering the self from 
the storm: Self-construal abstractness and the stability of self-esteem. Personality and Social 
Psychology Bulletin, 36
(1), 97-108.

 Lim, N., Lee, H., & Suh, E. M. (2010). Review of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) findings in Korea. Korean Journal of Psychology: General, 29(1), 21-47. [in Korean]

Kim, H. S., Sherman, D. K., Sasaki, J. Y., Xu, J., Chu, T. Q., Ryu, C., Suh, E. M., Graham, K., & Taylor, S. E. (2010). Culture, distress, and oxytocin receptor polymorphism (OXTR) interact to influence emotional support seeking. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(36), 15717-15721.

Diener, E., Suh, E. M., Kim-Prieto, C., Biswas-Diener, R., & Tay, L. S. (2010). Unhappiness in South Korea: Why it is high and what might be done about it. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of Korean Psychological Association, Seoul.

Suh, E. M., Koo, J., Lee, D., Jung, T., & Choi, I. (2010) Development of Short Korean Happiness 
Scale: COncise Measure Of Subjective Well-being (COMOSWB).
Paper presented at the Annual  
Meeting of Korean Psychological Association, Seoul. [in Korean]




2009

Suh, E. M., & Sung, M. (2009). Collective well-being. In S. J. Lopez (Ed.). The Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology (pp. 197-199). Vol. 1, Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.

Koo, J., Lee, A., & Suh, E. M. (2009). Social consequences of happiness: Are happy people popular? Korean Journal of Psychological and Social Issues, 15, 29-47. [in Korean]

Lee, E., Suh, E. M., Chu, T., Kim, H. S., & Sherman, D. K. (2009). Is emotional suppression that bad? Comparing the emotion suppression and subjective well-being link in two cultures. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 23, 131-146. [in Korean]

Kim, H. S., Sherman, D. K., Taylor, S. E., Sasaki, J. Y., Chu, T. Q., Ryu, C., Suh, E. M., & Xu, J. 
(2009). Culture, serotonin receptor polymorphism and locus of attention. Social Cognitive and 
Affective Neuroscience.
5(2-3), 212-218.



2008

Lee, H., Lim, N., Ryu, C., Suh, E. M., & Park, S. (2008). Influence of trait-level and behavioral 
expressions of extraversion on positive affect. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 22 , 159-175. [in Korean]

Suh, E. M., Diener, E., & Updegraff, J .A. (2008). From culture to priming conditions: Self-construal influences on life satisfaction judgments, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 39, 3-15.

Suh, E. M., & Koo, J. (2008). Comparing subjective well-being across cultures and nations: The "what" and "why" questions. In M. Eid & R. J. Larsen (Eds.). The science of subjective well-being (pp. 414-427). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

 

2007

Suh, E. M. (2007). The downsides of an overly context-sensitive self: Implications from the culture and subjective well-being research. Journal of Personality, 75, 1321-1343.

Park, J., & Suh, E. M. (2007). Individual levels of collectivism and reactions to suppression of collectivistic symbols. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 21 (4), 1-12 . [in Korean]

Koo, J., & Suh, E. (2007). Is happiness a zero-sum game? Belief in fixed amount of happiness(BIFAH) and subjective well-being. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 21 (4), 1-19. [in Korean]

Kim, J., Koo, J., Heo, S., & Suh, E. M. (2007). Positive ratio of emotional experience and flourishing: Causality and cultural difference. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 21 (3), 89-100. [in Korean]

Updegraff, J. A., & Suh, E. M. (2007). Happiness is a warm abstract thought: Self-construal abstractness and subjective well-being. Journal of Positive Psychology, 2, 18-28.

Chang, J., Ryu, K., Suh, E.M., & Choi, I. (2007). Quality of life of working men, women, and housewives measured by the Day Reconstruction Method(DRM). Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 21, 123-139. [in Korean]

Sung, M., Suh, E. M., & Chun, W. (2007). Discrepancies between predicted and actual happiness of others: Seoul versus Choonchun. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 21, 35-45. [in Korean]

 

2006

Kim, J., Koo, J., & Suh, E. M. (2006). Do physical attractiveness and happiness come together? Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 20, 61-70. [in Korean]

 

2005

Park, J., & Suh, E. M. (2005). Lay beliefs of selfhood and personal theories of happiness. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 19, 19-31. [in Korean]

Cho, S., Suh, E. M., & Ro, Y. (2005). Beliefs about blood types and traits and their reflections in self-reported personality. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 19, 33-47. [in Korean].

 

2004

Lee, J., Kim, M., & Suh, E. (2004). Happiness and the Eastern concept of Bok: Similarities and differences. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 18, 115-125. [in Korean]

Suh, E. M., & Oishi, S. (2004). Culture and subjective well-being: Introduction to the Special Issue. Journal of Happiness Studies, 5, 219-222.

 

2002

Suh, E. M. (2002). Culture, identity consistency, and subjective well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 1378-1391.

Triandis, H. C., & Suh, E. M. (2002). Cultural influences on personality. Annual Review of Psychology, 53, 133-160.

Diener, E., Oishi, S., Lucas, R. E., & Suh, E. M. (2002). Looking up and looking down: Weighting good and bad information in life satisfaction judgments. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 437-445.

Suh, E. M., & Oishi, S. (2002). Subjective well-being across cultures. In W. Lonner, D. L. Dinnel, S. A. Hayes, & D. N. Sattler (Eds.), Online Readings in Psychology and Culture (http://www.wwu.edu/~culture), Center for Cross-Cultural Research, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA.

 

2000

Suh, E. M. (2000). Self, the hyphen between culture and subjective well-being. In E. Diener & E. M. Suh (Eds.). Culture and subjective well-being (pp. 63-86). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Diener, E., & Suh, E. M. (2000). Measuring subjective well-being to compare the quality of life of cultures. In E. Diener & E. M. Suh (Eds.). Culture and subjective well-being (pp. 3-12). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Lucas, R. E., Diener, E., Grob, A., Suh, E. M., & Shao, L. (2000). Cross-cultural evidence for the fundamental features of extraversion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 452-468.

Schimmack, U., Oishi, S., Diener, E., & Suh, E. M. (2000). Facets of affective experiences: A framework for investigations of trait affect. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 655-668.

Diener, E., Gohm, C. L., Suh, E. M., & Oishi, S. (2000). Similarity of the relations between marital status and subjective well-being across cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 31, 419-436.

Diener, E., Scollon, C. K N., Oishi, S., Dzokoto, V., & Suh, E. M. (2000). Positivity and the construction of life satisfaction judgments: Global happiness is not the sum of its parts. Journal of Happiness Studies, 1, 159-176.

 

1999

Diener, E., Suh, E. M., Lucas, R., & Smith, H. (1999). Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 276-302.

Diener, E. & Suh, E. M. (1999). National differences in subjective well-being. In D. Kahneman, E. Diener, & N. Schwarz. (Eds.), Well-being: The foundations of hedonic psychology (pp. 434-450). New York: Russell-Sage.

Oishi, S., Diener, E., Lucas, R., & Suh, E. M. (1999). Cross-national variations in predictors of life satisfaction: Perspectives from need and values. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 980-990.

Oishi, S., Diener, E., Suh, E., & Lucas, R. (1999). Values as a moderator in subjective well-being. Journal of Personality, 67, 157-184.

 

1998


Suh, E., Diener, E., Oishi, S., & Triandis, H.C. (1998). The shifting basis of life satisfaction judgments across cultures: Emotions versus norms. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 482-493.

Diener, E., & Suh, E. (1998). Age and subjective well-being: An international analysis. Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 17, 304-324.

Diener, E., Sapyta, J. J., & Suh, E. (1998). Subjective well-being is essential to well-being. Psychological Inquiry, 9, 33-37.

Pavot, W., Diener, E., & Suh, E. (1998). The temporal satisfaction with life scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 70, 340-354.

Oishi, S., Schimmack, U., Diener, E., & Suh, E. (1998). The measurement of values and individualism-collectivism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 1177-1189.

 

1997


Diener, E., & Suh, E. (1997). Measuring quality of life: Economic, social, and subjective indicators. Social Indicators Research, 40, 189-216.

Diener, E., Suh, E., & Oishi, S. (1997). Recent findings in subjective well-being. Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology, 24, 25-41.

 

1996


Suh, E., Diener, E., & Fujita, F. (1996). Events and subjective well-being: Only recent events matter. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 1091-1102.

Lucas, R. E., Diener, E., & Suh, E. (1996). Discriminant validity of well-being measures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 616-628.

 

1995


Diener, E., Suh, E., Smith, H., & Shao, L. (1995). National differences in reported subjective well-being: Why do they occur? Social Indicators Research, 34, 7-32.





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