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Edward Diener (born 1946) is an American psychologist, professor, and author. Diener is a distinguished professor emeritus from the University of Illinois and a senior scientist for the Gallup Organization. He is noted for his research over the past thirty years〔Diener, E., Emmons, R. A., Larsen, R. J., Griffin, S. (1985). The satisfaction with life scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 49, 71- 75.〕〔Diener, E. (1984). Subjective well-being. Psychological Bulletin, 95, 542–575.〕〔Diener, E. (2000). Subjective well-being: The science of happiness and a proposal for a national index. American Psychology, 55(1), 34–43.〕 on happiness — the measurement of well-being; temperament and personality influences on well-being; theories of well-being; income and well-being; and cultural influences on well-being. As shown on Google Scholar as of January 2015, Diener's publications have been cited over 110,000 times. For his fundamental research on the subject, Diener is nicknamed ''Dr. Happiness.'' He has worked with researchers Daniel Kahneman and Martin Seligman – and he is a senior scientist for the Gallup Organization. == Background == Diener was born in 1946 in Glendale, California and grew up on a farm in the San Joaquin Valley of California. He attended San Joaquin Memorial High School in Fresno and subsequently received his B.A. in Psychology in 1968 from California State University at Fresno. He received his doctorate at the University of Washington in 1974 and was a faculty member at the University of Illinois for 34 years, retiring from active teaching in 2008. He held the Smiley chair, the Joseph R. Smiley Distinguished Professor of Psychology, at the University of Illinois. In 2010 he received honorary doctorates from the Free University of Berlin and Eureka College. He has won the distinguished scientist award from the International Society of Quality of Life Studies, as well as the Jack Block award for outstanding contributions to personality psychology. In 2015 he began as a professor of psychology at both the University of Virginia at the University of Utah. Diener's wife Carol is a forensic psychologist (both a clinical psychologist and attorney), his daughters Marissa and Mary Beth are psychologists, as is his son, Robert. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ed Diener」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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