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Laura A. King is a Curator’s Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri Columbia. She is currently the editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences.

Career
She received her BA in English Literature and Psychology at Kenyon College, and her PhD in Personality Psychology from the University of California, Davis. King was on a faculty member at Southern Methodist University (SMU) for 10 years before moving to the University of Missouri.

She has served as editor or associate for a numerous number of journal in personality and social psychology. Laura published over 90 articles and chapters; in addition to two college textbooks, The Science of Psychology and Experience Psychology.

Awards
She received the “sustained excellence” award from Southern Methodist University in 1999. She is a 2001 Templeton Positive Psychology Prize. She received the University of Missouri Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity in the Behavioral Sciences in 2004. She received the Carol and Ed Diener Award for Distinguished Contributions to Personality Psychology in 2011.

Academic Interest
King’s research has been funded by NIMH and NSF and is focused on motivation, narrative approaches, folk theories of The Good Life, and individual differences in intuitive information processing. Her work revolves around an interest in what is healthy and functioning about people; in addition to recognizing psychological functioning in everyday people and their everyday lives. In her research, she founded that religious people tend to consider their religous group to more superior than others, finding that “the association between religiosity and moral self-image was partially explained by impression management and perceptions of the morality of one’s religious ingroup. In addition, she defined the meaning of life as having felt to have an inportance beyond frivolous and short-lived, to have purpose, and/or to have a coherence that goes beyond disorder. Williams,Lisa (2019). "Having a sense of meaning in life is good for you- so how do you get one?" Retrieved on May 23,2019 from https://theconversation.com/having-a-sense-of-meaning-in-life-is-good-for-you-so-how-do-you-get-one-110361 Her research shows that forgetting people can cause personal damage to the person that is forgotten, in which people felt a decreased sense of belonging and meaning in the world. Bisceglio,Paul (2018). "Bad news for People who can't remember names" Retrieved on May 23,2019 from https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/10/im-sorry-whats-your-name-again/572614/

Selected Publication:

 * Cicero, D.C., Hicks, J. A., & King, L. A. (2015). The Role of Positive Affect and Individual Differences in Intuition in the Accuracy of Pattern Recognition. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 34, 398-414.
 * Heintzelman, S., Christopher, J., Trent, J., & King, L.A. (2013). Counterfactual thinking about one’s birth enhances evaluations of life. Journal of Positive Psychology, 8, 44-49.
 * King, L. A., & Geise, A. C. (2011). Being forgotten: Implications for the experience of meaning in life. Journal of Social Psychology, 151, 1-14.
 * Hicks, J.A., Schlegel, R. J., & King, L. A. (2010). Social threats, happiness, and the dynamics of meaning in life judgments. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1305-1317.
 * King, L. A., Hicks, J.A., Abdelkhalik, J. (2009). Death, Life, Scarcity, and Value: An alternative approach to the meaning of death. Psychological Science, 20, 1459-1462.
 * Hicks, J. A., & King, L. A. (2008). Mood and religion as information about meaning in life. Journal of Research in Personality, 42,43-57.
 * King, L. A., & Hicks, J. A. (2007). Whatever happened to “what might have been”? Regret, happiness, and maturity. American Psychologist,62, 625-636.

Reference:
 * 1. https://psychology.missouri.edu/people/king
 * 2. https://www.mentorcoach.com/positive-psychology-coaching/interviews/interview-laura-king-phd/
 * 3. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sbZm24UAAAAJ&hl=en
 * 4. https://king.socialpsychology.org
 * 5. https://www.inquisitr.com/5444066/religiosity-morality-religious-people/
 * 6. https://theconversation.com/having-a-sense-of-meaning-in-life-is-good-for-you-so-how-do-you-get-one-110361
 * 7. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/10/im-sorry-whats-your-name-again/572614/