Tamir, M. (in press). Differential preferences for happiness: Extraversion and trait-consistent emotion regulation. To appear in Journal of Personality. [pdf]

Tamir, M., Mitchell, C. & Gross, J. J. (2008). Hedonic and Instrumental Motives in Anger Regulation. Psychological Science, 19, 324-328. [pdf]

Tamir, M., & Diener, E. (in press). Approach-avoidance goals and well-being: One size does not fit all. Invited chapter to appear in A. J. Elliot (Ed.), Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation. Lawrence Erlbaum. [pdf]

Tamir, M., Chiu, C. Y., & Gross, J. J. (2007). Business or pleasure? Utilitarian versus hedonic considerations in emotion regulation. Emotion, 7, 546-554. [pdf]

Tamir, M., & Robinson, M. D. (2007). The happy spotlight: Positive mood and selective attention to rewarding information. To appear in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1124-1136. [pdf]

Tamir, M., John, O. P., Gross, J. J., & Srivastava, S. (2007). Implicit theories of emotion: Affective and social outcomes across a major life transition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 731-744. [pdf]

Tamir, M., Robinson, M. D., & Solberg, E. C. (2006). You may worry, but can you recognize threats when you see them?: Neuroticism, threat identifications, and negative affect. Journal of Personality, 74, 1481-1506. [pdf]

Kim-Prieto, C., Diener, E., Tamir, M., Scollon, C. N., & Diener, M. (2006). Integrating the diverse definitions of happiness: A time-sequential framework of subjective well-being. Journal of Happiness Studies, 6, 261-300.

Tamir, M. (2005). Don't worry, be happy? Neuroticism, trait-consistent affect regulation, and performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 449-461. [pdf]

Robinson, M. D., & Tamir, M. (2005). Neuroticism as mental noise: A relation between neuroticism and reaction time standard deviations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 107-114.

Tamir, M., & Robinson, M. D. (2004). Knowing good from bad: The paradox of neuroticism, negative affect, and evaluative processing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 913-925. [pdf]

Tamir, M., Robinson, M. D., Clore, G. L., Martin, L. L., & Whitaker, D. (2004). Are we puppets on a string?: The contextual meaning of unconscious expressive cues. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 237-249. [pdf]

Biswas-Diener, R., Diener, E., & Tamir, M. (2004). What the Greeks and self-help books haven't told you about happiness. Daedalus, 18-25.

Robinson, M. D., Vargas, P. T., Tamir, M., & Solberg, E. C. (2004). Using and being used by categories: The case of negative evaluations and daily well-being. Psychological Science, 15, 521-526.

Tamir, M., Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (2002). The epistemic benefits of trait-consistent mood states: An analysis of extraversion and mood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 663-677. [pdf]

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