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William Tov
Researcher at Singapore Management University
Publications - 51
Citations - 6873
William Tov is an academic researcher from Singapore Management University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Life satisfaction & Subjective well-being. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 48 publications receiving 5611 citations. Previous affiliations of William Tov include University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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New Well-Being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flourishing and Positive and Negative Feelings.
Ed Diener,Ed Diener,Derrick Wirtz,William Tov,Chu Kim-Prieto,Dong-Won Choi,Shigehiro Oishi,Robert Biswas-Diener +7 more
TL;DR: The Flourishing Scale as mentioned in this paper is a summary measure of the respondent's self-perceived success in important areas such as relationships, self-esteem, purpose, and optimism.
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Culture and subjective well-being
William Tov,Ed Diener +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that some types of well-being are consistent across cultures, whereas there are also unique patterns of wellbeing in societies that are not comparable across cultures.
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New Measures of Well-Being
Ed Diener,Derrick Wirtz,Robert Biswas-Diener,William Tov,Chu Kim-Prieto,Dong-Won Choi,Shigehiro Oishi +6 more
TL;DR: The Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE) as discussed by the authors is a short 8-item summary survey of the person's self-perceived functioning in important areas such as relationships, self-esteem, purpose and meaning, and optimism.
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Putting their best foot forward: emotional disclosure on Facebook
TL;DR: This study is the first to demonstrate impression management on Facebook through emotional disclosure, and results from both self-report and observer rating show that individuals are more likely to express positive relative to negative emotions and present better emotional well-being on Facebook than in real life.
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Mate preferences do predict attraction and choices in the early stages of mate selection
Norman P. Li,Jose C. Yong,William Tov,Oliver Sng,Garth J. O. Fletcher,Katherine A. Valentine,Yun F. Jiang,Daniel Balliet +7 more
TL;DR: Mate choices were sex-differentiated when considering long-term relationships but not short-term ones, where both sexes shunned partners with low physical attractiveness and the findings validate a large body of mate preferences research and an evolutionary perspective on mating.