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2017
- Dissertation
  - Gander, Fabian. Online positive psychology interventions based on pleasure, engagement, meaning, positive relationships, and accomplishment : measurement, validation of interventions, and exploration of working mechanisms. 2017, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
2016
- Journal Article
  - Kirchner, Jennifer; Ruch, Willibald; Dziobek, Isabel (2016). Brief Report: Character Strengths in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder Without Intellectual Impairment. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46(10):3330-3337.
  - Auerbach, Sarah; Ruch, Willibald; Fehling, Annette (2016). Positive emotions elicited by clowns and nurses: An experimental study in a hospital setting. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 2(1):14-24.
  - Platt, Tracey; Wagner, Lisa; Ruch, Willibald (2016). The association between class clown dimensions, school experiences and accomplishment. Learning & Individual Differences, 51:327-332.
  - Ruch, Willibald; Gander, Fabian (2016). Charakterstärken und Wohlbefinden bei der Arbeit: Wann der Job zur Berufung wird. Wirtschaftspsychologie Aktuell, (3):45-48.
  - Wellenzohn, Sara; Proyer, René T; Ruch, Willibald (2016). How do positive psychology interventions work? A short-term placebo-controlled humor-based study on the role of the time focus. Personality and Individual Differences, 96:1-6.
  - Ruch, Willibald; Heintz, Sonja (2016). The German version of the Humor Styles Questionnaire: Psychometric properties and overlap with other styles of humor. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 12(3):434-455.
  - Gander, Fabian; Proyer, René T; Ruch, Willibald (2016). Positive Psychology Interventions Addressing Pleasure, Engagement, Meaning, Positive Relationships, and Accomplishment Increase Well-Being and Ameliorate Depressive Symptoms: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Online Study. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:686.
  - Bruntsch, Richard; Hofmann, Jennifer; Ruch, Willibald (2016). Virgin soil in irony research: Personality, humor, and the “sense of irony”. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 2(1):25-34.
  - Ruch, Willibald; Heintz, Sonja (2016). The virtue gap in humor: Exploring benevolent and corrective humor. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 2(1):35-45.
  - Heintz, Sonja; Ruch, Willibald (2016). Reply to Martin (2015): Why our conclusions hold. HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, 29(1):125-129.
  - Chen, Guo-Hai; Ruch, Willibald; Li, Yan-Na (2016). Temperamental basis of sense of humor: validating the state-trait-cheerfulness-inventory in Mainland China. HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, 29(1):77-97.
  - Hofmann, Jennifer (2016). Kai Rugenstein: Humor: Die Verflüssigung des Subjekts bei Hippokrates, Jean Paul, Kierkegaard und Freud. HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, 29(2):329-332.
  - Proyer, Rene T; Gander, Fabian; Wellenzohn, Sara; Ruch, Willibald (2016). Addressing the role of personality, ability, and positive and negative affect in positive psychology interventions: Findings from a randomized intervention based on the authentic happiness theory and extensions. Journal of Positive Psychology, 11(6):609-621.
  - Proyer, Rene T; Gander, Fabian; Wellenzohn, Sara; Ruch, Willibald (2016). Nine beautiful things: A self-administered online positive psychology intervention on the beauty in nature, arts, and behaviors increases happiness and ameliorates depressive symptoms. Personality and Individual Differences, 94:189-193.
  - Wellenzohn, Sara; Proyer, Rene T; Ruch, Willibald (2016). Humor-based online positive psychology interventions: A randomized placebo-controlled long-term trial. Journal of Positive Psychology, 11(6):584-594.
  - Wagner, Lisa; Baumann, Nicola; Hank, Petra (2016). Enjoying influence on others: Congruently high implicit and explicit power motives are related to teachers’ well-being. Motivation & Emotion, 40(1):69-81.
  - Weber, Marco; Wagner, Lisa; Ruch, Willibald (2016). Positive feelings at school: on the relationships between students’ character strengths, school-related affect, and school functioning. Journal of Happiness Studies, 17(1):341-355.
- Book Section
  - Ruch, Willibald (2016). Humor und Charakter. In: Wild, Barbara; Buchkremer, Gerhard. Humor in Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie : Neurobiologie - Methoden - Praxis. - 2. Aufl. Stuttgart: Schattauer, 8-31.
  - Dupont, Stéphane; Çakmak, Hüseyin; Curran, Will; Dutoit, Thierry; Hofmann, Jennifer; McKeown, Gary; Pietquin, Olivier; Platt, Tracey; Ruch, Willibald; Urbain, Jérôme (2016). Laughter research: a review of the ILHAIRE project. In: Esposito, A; Chain, L C. Toward Robotic Socially Believable Behaving Systems - Volume I. New York: Springer, 147-181.
2015
- Journal Article
  - Proyer, Rene T; Gander, Fabian; Wellenzohn, Sara; Ruch, Willibald (2015). Strengths-based positive psychology interventions: a randomized placebo-controlled online trial on long-term effects for a signature strengths- vs. a lesser strengths-intervention. Frontiers in Psychology:6:456.
  - Ruch, Willibald; Proyer, Rene T (2015). Mapping strengths into virtues: the relation of the 24 VIA-strengths to six ubiquitous virtues. Frontiers in Psychology:6:460.
  - Hofmann, Jennifer; Platt, Tracey; Ruch, Willibald; Proyer, Rene T (2015). Individual differences in gelotophobia predict responses to joy and contempt. SAGE Open, 5(2):1-12.
  - Hofmann, Jennifer (2015). Humor in der sozialen Arbeit : Warum Humor wichtig ist und was der Humor in der Sozialen Arbeit zu suchen hat. SozialAktuell, (2):10-13.
  - Wagner, Lisa; Ruch, Willibald (2015). Attribute des Lachens: Ein lexikalischer Ansaz. Zeitschrift für Semiotik:109-127.
  - Hofmann, Jennifer; Ruch, Willibald (2015). Gibt es ein Lachen der Schadenfreude?. Zeitschrift für Semiotik:55-79.
  - Hofmann, Jennifer; Ruch, Willibald (2015). Humor stärkt mich. ASP-SPV-Info, (138):5-11.
  - Heintz, Sonja; Ruch, Willibald (2015). An examination of the convergence between the conceptualization and the measurement of humor styles: A study of the construct validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire. HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, 28(4):611-633.
  - Hofmann, Jennifer (2015). Humor - wo er nährt und wo er stört. Schulblatt Thurgau, (6):7-11.
  - Führ, Martin; Platt, Tracey; Proyer, Rene T (2015). Testing the relations of gelotophobia with humour as a coping strategy, self-ascribed loneliness, reflectivity, attractiveness, self-acceptance, and life expectations. European Journal of Humour Research, 3(1):84-97.
  - Kray, Jutta; Schmitt, Hannah; Heintz, Sonja; Blaye, Agnès (2015). Does verbal labeling influence age differences in proactive and reactive cognitive control?. Developmental Psychology, 51(3):378-391.
  - Hofmann, Jennifer; Platt, Tracey; Ruch, Willibald; Niewiadomski, Radoslaw; Urbain, Jerôme (2015). The influence of a virtual companion on amusement when watching funny films. Motivation & Emotion, 39(3):434-447.
  - Güsewell, Angelika; Ruch, Willibald (2015). Character Strengths Profiles of Musicians and Non-Musicians. Journal of Arts and Humanities, 4:online.
  - Wagner, Lisa; Ruch, Willibald (2015). Good character at school: Positive classroom behavior mediates the link between character strengths and school achievement. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:24.
  - Proyer, Rene T; Wagner, Lisa (2015). Playfulness in adults revisited: The signal theory in German speakers. American Journal of Play, 7(2):201-227.
  - Harzer, Claudia; Ruch, Willibald (2015). The relationships of character strengths with coping, work-related stress, and job satisfaction. Frontiers in Psychology:6:165.
  - Singh, Kamlesh; Ruch, Willibald; Junnarkar, Mohita (2015). Effect of the demographic variables and psychometric properties of the personal well-being index for school children in india. Child Indicators Research, 8(3):571-585.
  - Ďurka, Róbert; Ruch, Willibald (2015). The location of three dispositions towards ridicule in the five-factor personality model in the population of Slovak adults. Personality and Individual Differences, 72:177-181.
  - Proyer, Rene T; Wellenzohn, Sara; Gander, Fabian; Ruch, Willibald (2015). Toward a better understanding of what makes positive psychology interventions work : predicting happiness and depression from the person × intervention fit in a follow-up after 3.5 years. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 7(1):108-128.
  - Ruch, Willibald; Hofmann, Jennifer; Platt, Tracey (2015). Individual differences in gelotophobia and responses to laughter-eliciting emotions. Personality and Individual Differences, 72:117-121.
- Book Section
  - Ortner, T M; Proyer, Rene T (2015). Objective Personality Tests. In: Ortner, T M; van de Vijver, F J R. Behavior-based assessment in psycholog: Going beyond self-report in the personality, affective, motivation, and social domains. Göttingen: Hogrefe, 133-152.
  - Proyer, Rene T (2015). Zur multimethodischen Diagnostik beruflicher Interessen : vom Fragebogen zum Objektiven Test. In: Tarnai, Christian; Hartmann, Florian G. Berufliche Interessen: Beiträge zur Theorie von J. L. Holland. Münster: Waxmann, 45-62.
- Dissertation
  - Hofmann, Jennifer. Smiling and Laughter in Positive Emotions: Personality Influences and Expressive Features. 2015, University of Zurich, Faculty of Science.
2014
- Journal Article
  - Hofmann, Jennifer (2014). Intense or malicious? The decoding of eyebrow-lowering frowning in laughter animations depends on the presentation mode. Frontiers in Psychology:5:1306.
  - Ruch, Willibald; Platt, Tracey; Hofmann, Jennifer; Niewiadomski, Radoslaw; Urbain, Jerôme; Mancini, Maurizio; Dupont, Stephane (2014). Gelotophobia and the challenges of implementing laughter into virtual agents interactions. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience:8:928.
  - Proyer, Rene T (2014). Perceived functions of playfulness in adults : Does it mobilize you at work, rest, and when being with others?. European Review of Applied Psychology/ Revue Européenne de Psychologie Appliquée, 64(5):241-250.
  - Martínez-Martí, María Luisa; Ruch, Willibald (2014). Character strengths and well-being across the life span: data from a representative sample of German-speaking adults living in Switzerland. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:1253.
  - Ruch, Willibald; Platt, Tracey; Hofmann, Jennifer (2014). The character strengths of class clowns. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:1075.
  - Proyer, Rene T; Wagner-Menghin, Michaela M; Grafinger, Gyöngyi (2014). Screening reading comprehension in adults : development and initial evaluation of a reading comprehension measure. Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, 56(4):368-381.
  - Wagner, Lisa; Conrad, Daniela; Gajić, Najdana; Kácha, Ondřej; Martinović, Katarina; Skvortsova, Aleksandrina; van Doeselaar, Lotte; Voitenko, Darja (2014). Examining adolescents’ well-being: How do the orientations to happiness relate to their leisure time activities?. Journal of European Psychology Students (JEPS), 5(2):8-12.

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