  {"id":139,"date":"2017-03-22T11:05:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T15:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/?page_id=139"},"modified":"2026-07-07T14:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:19:13","slug":"dr-zelenski","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/dr-zelenski\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Zelenski"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Dr. Zelenski\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"john-m-zelenski\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">John M. Zelenski<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"221\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/Dr-Zalenski-Photo-240x221.jpeg\" alt=\"picture of Dr. John M. Zelenski\" class=\"wp-image-140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/Dr-Zalenski-Photo-240x221.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/Dr-Zalenski-Photo-160x147.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/Dr-Zalenski-Photo-400x368.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/Dr-Zalenski-Photo-360x331.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/Dr-Zalenski-Photo.jpeg 694w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John Zelenski <\/strong>is a Professor of Psychology at 杏吧原创 University in Ottawa, Canada.&nbsp; As a researcher and director of the 杏吧原创 University Happiness Laboratory, he studies individual differences in happiness, and how personality manifests itself &#8216;in the moment&#8217; as emotional, behavioural, and cognitive processes.&nbsp;Recent work has focused on two areas: the causes and consequences of social behaviour (e.g., in relation to the personality trait of introversion-extraversion), and the links among nature, people\u2019s sense of connection to nature (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturerelatedness.ca\/nature-relatedness\">nature relatedness<\/a>), happiness, and environmentally sustainable behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information is available via the links below and to the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.ca\/citations?user=BXtCl28AAAAJ&amp;hl\">John Zelenski Google Scholar profile<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/pp6qy\/\">John Zelenski on the Open Science Framework<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/John_M_Zelenski\">John Zelenski on Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johnzelenski.bsky.social\">John Zelenski on BlueSky<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nerdculture.de\/@JohnZelenski\">John Zelenski on Mastodon<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2026\/07\/JMZcv2026.pdf\">John Zelenski CV (.pdf)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us.sagepub.com\/en-us\/nam\/positive-psychology\/book284805\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2nd-ed-cover-240x299.jpg\" alt=\"picture of book cover: Positive Psychology The science of well-being by John M. Zelenski.  Second Edition\" class=\"wp-image-300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2nd-ed-cover-240x299.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2nd-ed-cover-160x200.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2nd-ed-cover-768x958.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2nd-ed-cover-400x499.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2nd-ed-cover-360x449.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/264\/2nd-ed-cover.jpg 1203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John M. Zelenski John Zelenski is a Professor of Psychology at 杏吧原创 University in Ottawa, Canada.&nbsp; As a researcher and director of the 杏吧原创 University Happiness Laboratory, he studies individual differences in happiness, and how personality manifests itself &#8216;in the moment&#8217; as emotional, behavioural, and cognitive processes.&nbsp;Recent work has focused on two areas: the causes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-139","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/139\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/happinesslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}