PUBLICATIONS IN POPULAR PRESS
Science Journal for Kids and Teens, Which Type of People Tend to Help Others?
Fast Company, You Should Probably Stop Checking Your Email So Much
Society for Personality & Social Psychology, Is Happiness Selfish?
Psychology Today, The Promise and Peril(s) of Mental Health Apps
Psychology Today, Time for a Psychologically Smart Technology
Psychology Today, How My Smartphone Transformed My Life
New York Times, Stop Checking Email so Often
World Economic Forum, Your Smartphone Is Making You Less Social. But Did You Realise…
World Economic Forum, Don't Trust People? It Could Be Because of Your Smartphone
Noba Blog, Smartphones as Tools of Teaching
Society of Clinical Psychology, Can Happiness Make Us Healthier? Evidence from…
Society for Personality & Social Psychology, Parents: Disconnecting from Your Phone…
The Conversation, To Improve Digital Well-Being, Put Your Phone Down and Talk to People
Fast Company, Could Our Faith in Phones Undermine Our Trust in Humans?
NewsWeek, Can Addiction to Smartphones Trigger ADHD?
MEDIA MENTIONS
CBC, Can Money Buy Happiness? Income May Boost Emotional Well-being More Than We Thought (2024)
NPR, Opinion: Fewer Dings, Please! (2023)
Axios D.C., D.C. Area Reckons with Uptick in Youth Violence (2023)
First for Women, Eating Chocolate Really Can Cure Stress, Say the Experts, and Other Self-Care Tricks to Boost Joy (2023)
The Washington Post, Are Smartphones Serving As Adult Pacifiers (2022)
New York Times, Yale’s Happiness Professor Says Anxiety Is Destroying Her Students (2022)
Discover, Phone Notifications Are Messing with Your Brain (2022)
Livestrong, 7 Ways to Remove Email Stress from Your Life (2021)
Discover, Are Flip Phones Really Better for You (2021)
Yahoo!, 101 Ways to Have Fun Online with Your Kids (2021)
Psychology Today, Must Life Go Downhill As You Age, or Do You Have a Choice? (2021)
Scientific American, In Defense of the Psychologically Rich Life (2020)
Psychology Today, Do Interesting Experiences Make a "Good Life?" (2020)
APS Observer, Technology in Context: The Surprising Social Upsides of Constant Connectivity (2020)
APS Observer, Health and Happiness Depend on Each Other, Psychological Science Says (2020)
APS Observer, New Research in Psychological Science (2020)
Forbes, Happy People Don’t Ignore the World’s Problems, They Act to Solve Them (2020)
Psychology Today, Can Having a Happier Outlook on Life Make Us Healthier? (2020)
Science Daily, Health and Happiness Depend on Each Other (2020)
The Conversation, ‘Technoference’: Why We Should Be Worried About Parents’ Screen Time (2020)
APS Observer, Connectivity Creates Costs: How Smartphones Hinder Well-Being (2019)
BBC, How Busyness Leads to Bad Decisions (2019)
Bloomberg, A Wealth Tax Could Deliver a Happiness Dividend (2019)
Business Insider, An American Tour de France Team Has Barred Its Riders from Using Cellphones… (2019)
CBC, Want to Be More Creative, More Connected and Happier in 2019? (2019)
Forbes, Three Ways to Get Your Cell Phone Under Control (2019)
Forbes, Leading with Emotional Intelligence: 3 Skills to Boost Your Management Style (2019)
Greater Good at UC Berkeley, Happiness Doesn’t Make You Ignore Social Problems (2019)
Greater Good at UC Berkley, How Phones Compromise Our Ability to Connect (2019)
National Geographic, Asia’s Live-Streaming Industry Promises Intimacy… (2019)
National Geographic, Smartphones Revolutionize Our Lives—But at What Cost? (2019)
National Public Radio, Want to Feel Happier Today? Try Talking to a Stranger (2019)
One Zero, How Mindless Phone Use Ruins Your Relationships (2019)
World Economic Forum, How to Find Meaning - and Why It Matters (2019)
Business Insider, Today Is Officially the National Day of Unplugging — Here's Why That's so… (2018)
CBC, Distracted by Interruptions? Science Offers Tips for Focusing (2018)
CBC, Sitting Down to Thanksgiving Dinner? UBC Study Suggests Putting Smartphones Away (2018)
CNET, Your Smartphone May Be Ruining Your Dinner Out (2018)
Harvard Business Review, Having Your Smartphone Nearby Takes a Toll on Your Thinking (2018)
NBC, Can't put down the phone? How smartphones Are changing our brains — and lives (2018)
Science Daily, Not enjoying your dinner out? Try putting the phone away (2018)
The New York Times, Suicides Have Increased. Is This an Existential Crisis? (2018)
The Times, Smartphones will put you off dinner (2018)
Time Magazine, You Asked: Should I Ditch My Smartphone? (2018)
Time Magazine, Using Your Phone At Dinner Isn’t Just Rude. It Also Makes You Unhappy (2018)
WIRED Magazine, The Research Behind Google’s New Tools for Digital Well-Being (2018)
The Huffington Post, Can you Switch Off? (2017)
The New York Times, How Big Do You Want Your Nest Egg To Be? (2017)
Smithsonian Magazine, France Says “Au Revoir” to After-Hours Work Email (2017)
Vogue, Should Smartphones Have an Age Requirement? (2017)
BBC, France’s Battle Against an ‘Always-on’ Work Culture (2017)
The Atlantic, How Can the U.S. Stop Disease Before It Starts? (2016)
Business Insider, Money Might Actually Buy Happiness — but Only up to a Certain Point (2016)
New York Post, You’re Working an Extra Day per Week without Even Knowing It (2016)
VICE Media, Researchers Say That Smartphones Are Causing ADHD-Like Symptoms… (2016)
WIRED Magazine, Phone Notifications Cause ‘ADHD-like Symptoms’ (2016)
Business Insider, Here’s Why Email Gives Us so Much Anxiety (2015)
Business Insider, A Higher Income May Not Make You Happy, but It Will Make You Less Sad (2015)
Forbes, Stop Checking Email so Often and Reduce Your Stress (2015)
The Huffington Post, Money Can Make You Less Sad, but Not More Happy (2015)
Money, The Only 3 Things You Need to Know About Money and Happiness (2015)
New York Magazine, Money Makes You Less Sad, but Not More Happy (2015)
The New Republic, Wealth Doesn’t Make the Rich Happier, But Poverty Makes the Poor… (2015)
CBC, Stress Linked to Frequent Email Checking (2014)
The Guardian, …For Now, Tame the Information Overload by Turning off Those Notifications (2014)
The Huffington Post, Checking Email Is Increasing Your Stress Levels, so It's Time To Stop (2014)
New York Magazine, You’ll Be Less Stressed if You Check Your Email Less Frequently (2014)
The New Republic, Stop Checking Your Email so Often. It’s Stressing You Out (2014)
U.S. News & World Report, How to Separate Family Time from Your Finances (2014)
Time Magazine, In Defense of Kids and Parenting: They Can Be Amazing… (2014)
The Atlantic, Study: Parents Only as Happy as Their Unhappiest Child (2013)
National Public Radio, Does Having Children Make You Happier? (2013)
Time, Parents — Especially Dads — Are Happier than Their Childless Pals… (2012)
The Economist, Having Children Really Does Make a Man More Content with Life (2012)
PODCASTs
CBC Radio One, Yes, Money Really Can Buy Happiness (2024)
Marketing Science Institute, How Personal Devices Shape Lives (2023)
Forbes, Is Technology Causing Our Unhappiness? Yes and No (2022)
A World of Wellbeing, Digital Wellbeing (2021)
Talk of Today, Happiness and Society with Dr. Kostadin Kushlev (2020)
RADIO INTERVIEWS (SELECTED)
Bulgarian National Radio, What happens to happiness in a pandemic?
NPR’s “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!”, Bluff The Listener
BBC World News
Wall Street Journal, How Smartphones Sabotage Your Brain's Ability to Focus
Wisconsin Public Radio
WCVE (NPR-affiliate)
InfoTrak, Conversation