Laura A. King

Laura A. King Ph.D. is the Frederick A. Middlebush Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She received her A.B. in English Literature and Psychology from Kenyon College in 1986 and her PhD in personality psychology from the University of California, Davis in 1991. She taught at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, before coming to the University of Missouri, in 2001.

Her research has focused on well-being, particularly meaning in life, motivation, narrative approaches, and folk theories of The Good Life. Most recently her work has examined the interplay of affect and individual differences in intuitive information processing in the experience of meaning in life events. She has published over 80 articles and chapters and is currently the editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences.