I study motivation, goals, and well-being, drawing from both self-determination theory and positive psychology perspectives. Prominent research questions include “Can happiness go up, and then stay up?”, “Can people be helped to pick life-goals that better express their developmental potentials?”, and “how can the concept of personal agency be reconciled with the concept of a deterministic universe?

Contact: Sheldonk@missouri.edu

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Photo Web page -- Travels & Experiments

My Music -- Ancient Songs and Songs by my band, the Hellbenders