Milla Titova

Assistant Professor, Social and Personality Psychology

OFFICIAL START DATE: JANUARY 2025
Research Interests: 

  • Happiness and well-being
  • Specifically: 
    • How cultural and personality differences affect people’s well-being levels, as well as the experience of happiness and positive emotions.
    • How people’s relationships with the places and spaces that they occupy connect to happiness and well-being.

Updated 09/23/24

Selected Publications: 

  • Titova L. & Sheldon K. M. (In Press). Happiness comes from trying to make others feel good, rather than oneself. Journal of Positive Psychology.
  • Titova L. & Sheldon K. M. (In Press). Thwarted Beneficence: Not Getting to Help Lowers Mood. Journal of Positive Psychology.
  • Titova L. & Sheldon K. M. (2018). Why Do I Feel This Way? Attributional Assessment of Happiness and Unhappiness. Journal of Positive Psychology, 14(5), 1-14.
  • Titova L., Werner, K. M., & Sheldon K. M. (2018). Translating Positive Psychology. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 4(3), 211-214.
  • Titova L., Wagstaff A., & Parks A. C. (2017). Disentangling the Effects of Gratitude and Optimism: A Cross-Cultural Investigation. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 48(5), 754-770.

News:

Updated: 11/01/24

Degree(s)

  • University of Missouri