Research Topics

Minkyung Koo

Affiliation: University of Virginia

Country: USA

It's a wonderful life: mentally subtracting positive events improves people's affective states, contrary to their affective forecasts
Minkyung Koo
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4400, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 95:1217-24. 2008
False memory and the associative network of happiness
Minkyung Koo
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4400, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 35:212-20. 2009
Culture, interpersonal perceptions, and happiness in social interactions
Shigehiro Oishi
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22904 4400, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 34:307-20. 2008

It's a wonderful life: mentally subtracting positive events improves people's affective states, contrary to their affective forecasts
Minkyung Koo
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4400, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 95:1217-24. 2008
..The authors discuss the implications of these findings for the literatures on gratitude induction and counterfactual reasoning...
False memory and the associative network of happiness
Minkyung Koo
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4400, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 35:212-20. 2009
..In combination, results suggest that there are important individual and cultural differences in the cognitive structure and associative network of happiness...
Culture, interpersonal perceptions, and happiness in social interactions
Shigehiro Oishi
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22904 4400, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 34:307-20. 2008
..Together, this research shows that interpersonal affirmation of important aspects of the self leads to happiness and that cultural differences are likely to emerge from the emphasis placed on different aspects of the self...