Jordi Quoidbach

Dr. Jordi Quoidbach is an Associate Professor in the Department of People Management and Organizations at ESADE Business School in Barcelona. His research explores the bi-directional relationship between choice and happiness. In particular, Dr. Quoidbach is interested in understanding how people's current happiness-and other emotional states-shape their decisions, and (2) how people's everyday decisions profoundly shape their happiness. His work highlights novel perspectives to help individuals making better personal and professional decisions that will improve their happiness in the long run.

This research has been published in top-tier journals such as Science, Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Science, JAMA Psychiatry, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Popular accounts of Dr. Quoidbach's research have been featured on CNN, BBC, and NPR and have appeared in publications such as Scientific American, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. He was identified among the Best 40 Business Professors Under 40 in Poets & Quants. In addition to his research activities, Dr. Quoidbach has published popular science books on emotions and well-being and hosted a TV series about the Science of Happiness on the French television channel M6.

Education

• Ph.D. in Psychology. University of Liège

Areas of interest

• Happiness, Decision-Making, Emotion

Publications

Weingarten, E., Duke, K., Liu, W., Hamilton, R. W., Amir, O., Appel, G., Cerf, M., Goodman, J. K., Morales, A. C., O’Brien, E., Quoidbach, J. & Sun, M. (2022). What makes people happy? Decoupling the experiential‐material continuum. Journal of Consumer Psychology.

Pirla, S., Taquet, M., & Quoidbach, J. (in press). Measuring affect dynamics: An empirical framework. Behavior Research Methods.

Catapano, R., Quoidbach, J., Mogilner, C., & Aaker, J. (in press). Financial resources impact the relationship between meaning and happiness. Emotion.

Busseri, M., & Quoidbach, J. (in press). The structure of everyday happiness is best captured by a latent subjective well-being factor. Journal of Research in Personality.

Kapogli, E., & Quoidbach, J. (2021). Stranger or a clone? Future self-connectedness depends on who you ask, when you ask, and what dimension you focus on. Current Opinion in Psychology. Advance online publication.

Gregory, A., Quoidbach, J., Haase, C.M., & Piff, P. (2021). Be here now: Perceptions of uncertainty enhance savoring. Emotion, Advance online publication.

Quoidbach, J., Dercon, Q., Taquet, M., Desseilles, M., de Montjoye, Y. A., & Gross, J. J. (2021). Happiness and the Propensity to Interact With Other People: Reply to Elmer (2021). Psychological Science, 32, 960-965.

Yudkin, D. A., Gantman, A. P., Hofmann, W., & Quoidbach, J. (2021). Binding moral values gain importance in the presence of close others. Nature communications, 12, 2718.

Taquet, M., Quoidbach, J., Fried, E., & Goodwin, G. (2021). Mood homeostasis before and during the COVID-19 lockdown among students in the Netherlands. JAMA Psychiatry, 78, 110-112.