Elizabeth Dunn
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I am interested in self-knowledge and its shortcomings, including beliefs about oneself and others that people cannot or will not report. Specifically, I study mental biases that exist outside conscious awareness, leading people to make inaccurate predictions about their future well-being and to make prejudiced judgments of others. In my main line of research, I investigate how and why people misunderstand what will make them happy. In a secondary line of research, I examine how people activate, inhibit, apply, and transmit stereotypes unintentionally.
Primary Interests:
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Person Perception
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Social Cognition
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Helping Others Makes Us Happier-- But It Matters How We Do It
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14:30 Helping Others Makes Us Happier-- But It Matters How We Do It
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14:55 Happiness and Money
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12:12 What Is Your Time Really Worth?
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6:53 Positive Psychology
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4:36 How to Get an "Emotional Boost" by Giving to Others
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1:13 Happiness Research
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15:19 Money, Generosity and Happiness
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37:45 How to Maximize Your Happiness Without Increasing Your Income
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5:55 The Best Things in Life Aren't Things
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6:24 Happy Money
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49:14 Can We Spend Our Way to Happiness?
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41:14 How to Be Happier: Science-Based Tips and Insights
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12:22 Sharing Social Psychology with the Public
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37:21 FLUID Sociability Panel: Increasing Social Interactions
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Journal Articles:
- Aknin, L. B., Dunn, E. W., & Norton, M. I. (2012). Happiness runs in a circular motion: Evidence for a positive feedback loop between prosocial spending and happiness. Journal of Happiness Studies, 13(2), 347-355.
- Aknin, L. B., Hamlin, J. K., & Dunn, E. W. (2012). Giving leads to happiness in young children. PLoS ONE, 7(6), e39211.
- Dunn, E. W., Brackett, M. A., Ashton-James, C., Schneiderman, E., & Salovey, P. (2007). On emotionally intelligent time travel: Individual differences in affective forecasting ability. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 85-93.
- Dunn, E. W., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2011). If money doesn’t make you happy, then you probably aren’t spending it right. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 21(2), 115-125.
- Dunn, E. W., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2003). Location, location, location: The misprediction of satisfaction in housing lotteries. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1421-1432.
- Norton, M. I., Dunn, E. W., Carney, D. R., & Ariely, D. (2012). The persuasive “power” of stigma? Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 117, 261-268.
- Sinclair, S., Dunn, E. W., & Lowery, B. (2005). The influence of parental racial attitudes on children's automatic racial prejudice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 283-289.
- Wilson, T. D., & Dunn, E. W. (2004). Self-knowledge: Its limits, value, and potential for improvement. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 493-518.
Other Publications:
- Dunn, E. W., & Laham, S. A. (2006). Affective forecasting: A user’s guide to emotional time travel. To appear in J. Forgas (Ed.), Hearts and minds: Affective influences on social cognition and behavior. (Frontiers of Social Psychology Series). New York: Psychology Press.
Courses Taught:
- A Survey of Social Psychology I: Intrapersonal Processes
- Scientific Perspectives on Self-Knowledge
- Social Psychology
Elizabeth Dunn
Department of Psychology
Douglas Kenny Building, 2136 West Mall
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4
Canada
- Phone: (604) 827-3144