Lisa C. Walsh is a doctoral candidate in social/personality psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Her work has been published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Emotion, among others.

Julia K. Boehm is an assistant professor of psychology at Chapman University in Orange, California. Her work has been published in The New York Times and Psychological Science, among many others.

Sonja Lyubomirsky is Professor and Vice Chair of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of The How of Happiness (2008).