30 Facts About Ed Diener

Edward Francis Diener was an American psychologist and author.

Ed Diener is noted for his three decades of research on happiness, including work on temperament and personality influences on well-being, theories of well-being, income and well-being, cultural influences on well-being, and the measurement of well-being.

Ed Diener was born in 1946 in Glendale, California, and grew up on a farm in the San Joaquin Valley of California.

Ed Diener attended San Joaquin Memorial High School in Fresno.

Ed Diener was a professor at the University of Illinois for 34 years, retiring in 2008 from active teaching.

Ed Diener held the Smiley chair as the Joseph R Smiley Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois.

Ed Diener won the distinguished scientist award from the International Society for Quality of Life Studies, as well as the Jack Block award for outstanding contributions to personality psychology.

Ed Diener's wife Carol is a forensic psychologist.

Ed Diener died on April 27,2021, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Ed Diener, known as Dr Happiness, is one of the lead researchers in the field of subjective well-being.

Ed Diener has found that the correlations between SWB and extraversion and neuroticism are stronger than the correlations with any demographic predictor or major life circumstance that has thus been studied.

Ed Diener discovered that there are reasons for greater SWB among extraverts beyond the fact that they spend more time with others, a hypothesis popularized by other researchers.

Ed Diener found that the more active reward system in extraverts is a greater influence than the social or nonsocial aspect of a situation.

Ed Diener summarized the pathways, through which happiness affects health and longevity.

Ed Diener's research challenged the theory by showing that people do not adapt completely to all events.

Ed Diener identified three factors that influence the relationship between income and SWB.

In recent years, Ed Diener conducted major studies looking at the role of culture in explaining the international differences of SWB.

Finally, Ed Diener investigated the differences of SWB among affluent countries.

Together with colleagues, Ed Diener developed three scales that help scientists to assess Well-Being.

In 2012, Ed Diener was awarded the Distinguished Scientist Lifetime Career Award by the American Psychological Association.

In 2013, Ed Diener received the William James Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association for Psychological Science.

Ed Diener founded a new journal, Perspectives on Psychological Science, which has become one of the most acclaimed and widely read journals in the field.

Ed Diener was one of the founding editors of the Journal of Happiness Studies.

Ed Diener has over 257,000 citations in Google Scholar.

Ed Diener has several Psychological Bulletin articles, several American Psychologist papers, 12 publications in Psychological Science, and over 57 publications in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In recognition of his scientific contributions, Ed Diener held an endowed chair at his university, the Joseph R Smiley Distinguished Professorship of Psychology.

Ed Diener received the Distinguished Scientist Award from both the American Psychological Association and the International Society of Quality of Life Studies, and the outstanding personality psychologist award from Division 8 of APA, the Society of Personality and Social Psychology.

Ed Diener has several honorary doctorates to his name, was a fellow of five scientific societies, and has been the focus of many popular media articles, from Newsweek to the Wall Street Journal to Reader's Digest.

Ed Diener proposed that nations collect data on the subjective and psychological well-being of citizens to help in policy discussions.

In 2004 Ed Diener authored with Martin Seligman an influential article, Beyond Money: Toward an Economy of Well-being, arguing that the well-being indicators would supplement economic, educational, and other national measures to provide policy makers and leaders with important information.