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• Normative ethics (especially hedonism, wellbeing, and experimental normative ethics)
  
• Applied ethics (especially the ethics of prediction markets; e.g. PredictIt)
• Interdisciplinary happiness/wellbeing research (especially wellbeing and public policy, philosophy of happiness science, and conceptions of happiness)

• Founding co-editor of the International Journal of Wellbeing. Link
• International editorial board member of Rowman & Littlefield's book series on "Behavioural Applied Ethics"
  
• Editorial review board member for the International Journal of Technoethics
  
• Peer reviewer for Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics, Ergo, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Ethics and Social Welfare, International Journal of Technoethics, International Journal of Wellbeing, Journal of Cultural Economics, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Journal of Social Philosophy, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Journal of Value Inquiry, Methods in Psychology, National Science Center of Poland, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Philosophical Frontiers, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Studies, Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Quality of Life Research, Res Philosophica, Springer, Sustainability, and Utilitas. 
  
• University of Waikato's representative in the New Zealand Association of Philosophers
  
• Member of the Expert Group for the Global Happiness Organization. Link
  
• Executive committee member for the New Zealand Association of Positive Psychology
  

• Examining what we value about our lives when we really think about it. An experimental philosophy book project with Peter Unger
• Deconstructive Replication - an empirical method for evaluating the fitness for purpose of thought experiment-audience pairings
  
• Investigating famous 2-option moral thought experiments (starting with trolley problems) using experimental philosophy to assess what differences, if any, several-option versions of the scenarios make (in conjunction with Peter Unger and Justin Sytsma)
• Several papers on the deceived businessman and the experience machine (in defense of hedonism)
• The freebie problem - a structural problem present in many famous philosophical thought experiments
• A Cross-cultural and mixed methods investigation of conceptions of happiness and well-being with Mohsen Joshanloo
• An empirical paper comparing the happiness of philosophers to non-philosophers (it doesn't look good for philosophers!) with Matthew McDonald and Aaron Jarden

• Munn, Nick & Weijers, Dan (forthcoming). Good friendships improve our lives. But can virtual friendships be good? Proceedings of the ICT, society, and human beings 2021 conference.
• Weijers, Dan & Munn, Nick (2021). Technology as cause of and solution to the empathy problem. Proceedings of The Sherry Turkle Miracle. Workshop organised by the Committee for Communication and Media Theory, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (May 27, 2021). Available from: http://www.hunfi.hu/nyiri/STM/W--M.pdf 
• Joshanloo, Mohsen, Weijers, Dan, & Bond, Michael (2021). Cultural religiosity moderates the relationship between perceived societal injustice and satisfaction with one’s life. Personality and Individual Differences, 179, 110891. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110891. Publisher's site. (full access until May 28, 2021)
  
• Weijers, Dan & Jarden, Aaron (2021). The International Journal of Wellbeing: Ten years on and the next ten years. International Journal of Wellbeing, 11(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.5502/ijw.v11i1.1577
  
• Weijers, Dan (2021). Wellbeing and the four qualities of life. In A. C. Michalos (ed.), The Pope of Happiness: A Festschrift for Ruut Veenhoven. (pp. xxx-yyy). Springer. Publisher's site. Last author version.
• Weijers, Dan (2021). "Chapter 15. “Just wrong,” “disgusting,” “grotesque”: How to Deal with Public Rejection of New Potentially Life-saving Technologies", in Steff, R., Soare, S., & Burton, J. (eds.), Emerging Technologies and International Security: Machines, the State and War. Routledge, pp. 254-272. Publisher's site. Last author version.
  
• Ulatowski, Joe, Weijers, Dan, & Sytsma, Justin (2020). Corpus Methods in Philosophy, The Brains Blog, 15 December 2020. Link
• Weijers, Dan (2020). Teaching well-being/quality of life from a philosophical perspective, in Graciela Tonon (ed.), Teaching Quality of Life in Different Domains. Springer, pp. 15-42. Publisher's site. My chapter.
  
• Buscicchi, Lorenzo & Weijers, Dan (2019). The paradox of happiness: the more you chase it the more elusive it becomes, in John Watson (ed.), The Conversation Yearbook 2019: 50 standout articles from Australia’s top thinkers. Melbourne University Press, pp. 140-143. Publisher's site. Republishing of Buscicchi, Lorenzo & Weijers, Dan (2019). The Paradox of Happiness: The more you chase it the more elusive it becomes, The Conversation, 27 May. Link.
• Joshanloo, Mohsen & Weijers, Dan (2019). Islamic Perspectives on Wellbeing, in Louise Lambert & Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi (eds.), Positive Psychology in the GCC Nations (and beyond): An Introduction to Research, Policy, and Practice. Springer, pp. 237-256.
• Joshanloo, Mohsen, Weijers, Dan (2019) A two-dimensional conceptual framework for understanding mental well-being. PLoS ONE, 14(3): e0214045. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214045
  

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