Selected Publications
King, L. A., & Hicks, J. A. (2007). Whatever happened to “what might have been?” Regrets, happiness, and maturity. American Psychologist. 62, 625 -636. PDF
Hicks, J. A., & King, L.A. (in press). Religious commitment and positive mood as information about meaning in life. Journal of Research in Personality. PDF
Hicks, J. A., & King, L. A. (2007). Meaning in life and seeing the big picture: Positive affect and global focus. Cognition and Emotion, 21, 1577 - 1584. PDF
King, L. A., Burton, C. M., Hicks, J. A., & Dragotis, S. (2007). Ghosts, UFOs, and magic: Positive affect and the experiential system. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 905-919. PDF
Friedman, R. S., McCarthy, D. M., Bartholow, B. D., & Hicks J. A. (2007). Interactive effects of alcohol outcome expectancies and suboptimal alcohol cues on non-consumptive behavior. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. 15, 102-114. PDF
King, L. A., & Hicks, J. A. (2006). Narrating the self in the past and the future: Implications for maturity. Research in Human Development, 3, 121-138. PDF
King, L. A., Hicks, J. A., Krull, J., & Baker, A. G. (2006).Positive affect and the experience of meaning in life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 179-196.PDF
Manuscripts Under Review
King, L. A. & Hicks, J. A. Positive affect and meaning in life: The intersection of hedonism and eudaimonia. Invited chapter to appear in P. T. T. Wong's (Ed.), The Human Quest for Meaning. PDF
Schlegel, R. J., Hicks, J. A., King, L. A., & Arndt, J. (under review). Thine own self: True self-concept accessibility and meaning in life. Abstract
King, L. A. & Hicks, J. A. (under review). The detection and construction of meaning in life events. Abstract
Hicks, J. A, Schlegel, R. J., & King, L. A. (in revision). Love and happiness: A test of competing cues to the experience of meaning in life. Abstract
Hicks, J. A., Pedersen, S. L., McCarthy, D. M., & Friedman, R. S. (under review). Marijuana Cues, Expectancies, and Arithmetic Efficiency. Abstract
Hicks, J. A. (under review). Ideal possible selves and alcohol use.