Milla Titova, Ph.D.
Assistant Teaching Professor
Guthrie 235
Advising:
Does not accept or train psychology graduate students.
Areas:
Social and Personality
Interests: Positive psychology; happiness and well-being; prosocial behavior
Research
My research interests concentrate on happiness and well-being, specifically, how cultural and personality differences affect people’s well-being levels, as well as the experience of happiness and positive emotions. I am also investigating how people’s relationships with the places and spaces that they occupy connect to happiness and well-being.
Education
University of Missouri
- PSYCH 303 - Personality Psychology
- PSYCH 345 - Social Psychology
- PSYCH 478 - Cultural Psychology
- PSYCH 208 - Happiness
- PSYCH 101 - Introduction to Psychology
- PSYCH 448 - Psychology of Everyday Life
- December 15, 2023 Milla Titova, Assistant Teaching Professor and happiness researcher, offers tips on how to find joy through social connections
- March 6, 2023 Milla Titova co-authors two papers
- February 27, 2023 Milla Titova interviewed by KUOW about mental health during winter
- January 9, 2023 Milla Titova Quoted in Daily article about gaslighting
- November 4, 2022 Milla Titova is quoted in HeraldNet about how museums can boost happiness
- September 13, 2022 Milla Titova is quoted in The Daily about staying organized during back-to-school season
- August 29, 2022 Milla Titova Quoted in The Daily about the 'Seattle Freeze'
- July 22, 2022 Milla Titova Quoted in Seattle Times Article about Neighbor Day
- January 25, 2022 Milla Titova explains how to practice gratitude in a Seattle Times feature on positive psychology
- Titova L. & Sheldon K. M. (In Press). Happiness comes from trying to make others feel good, rather than oneself. Journal of Positive Psychology.
- Titova L. & Sheldon K. M. (In Press). Thwarted Beneficence: Not Getting to Help Lowers Mood. Journal of Positive Psychology.
- Titova L. & Sheldon K. M. (2018). Why Do I Feel This Way? Attributional Assessment of Happiness and Unhappiness. Journal of Positive Psychology, 14(5), 1-14.
- Titova L., Werner, K. M., & Sheldon K. M. (2018). Translating Positive Psychology. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 4(3), 211-214.
- Titova L., Wagstaff A., & Parks A. C. (2017). Disentangling the Effects of Gratitude and Optimism: A Cross-Cultural Investigation. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 48(5), 754-770.