Positive Psychology CenterThe following is an alphabetized list of some of the universities with faculty who have an interest in Positive Psychology. The first section is a list of schools that have two or more faculty with an interest in Positive Psychology. The second section is a list of schools with one Positive Psychology faculty. We hope this list helps undergraduates, graduate students and others with an interest in Positive Psychology find programs where they can pursue their interests. This list is not complete and up to date.
If you would like to be added to this list, send an email to Peter Schulman.
Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain
Bernardo Moreno-Jimenez
Email address: bernardo.moreno@uam.es
Faculty webpage: http://www.uam.es/gruposinv/esalud/Profe/Bernardo/layoutprofe.htm
Interests: Resilience, Hope, Personality, Proactivity, Positive emotions, Cognitive flexibility, and Self-regulation
Eva Garrosa
Email address: eva.garrosa@uam.es
Faculty webpage: http://www.uam.es/gruposinv/esalud/Profe/Eva/clases.htm
Interests: Personality and Emotions, Positive Occupational Health Psychology
Raquel Rodriguez-Carvajal
Email address: raquel.rodriguez@uam.es
Faculty webpage: http://www.uam.es/gruposinv/esalud/Profe/Raquel/layoutprofe.htm
Interests: Self-regulation, Emotional labor, Goal-setting, Personality, Cognitive flexibility, Well-being and Flow
Boston College
Ellen Winner
Email address: winner@bc.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.ellenwinner.com/
Interests: Learning and cognition in the arts in typical and gifted children
Maya Tamir
Email address: tamirm@bc.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www2.bc.edu/~tamirm/
Interests: Emotions; Emotion Regulation; Well-Being
Bucks New University
Matthew Smith
Email address: Matthew.Smith@bucks.ac.uk
Faculty webpage: http://bucks.ac.uk/whoswho/profile/matthew_smith
Interests: Positive Emotions; Luck; Flow
Piers Worth
Email address: Piers.Worth@bucks.ac.uk
Faculty webpage: http://bucks-uk.academia.edu/PiersWorth
Interests: Creativity; Positive Aging; Impact of Positive Psychology Interventions on Health
University of California (Berkeley, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Irvine)
Elissa S. Epel (UCSF)
Email address: eepel@lppi.ucsf.edu
Faculty webpage: http://psych.ucsf.edu/faculty.aspx?id=616
Interests: Chronic Stress in Family Caregivers
Susan Folkman (UCSF)
Email address: folkman@ocim.ucsf.edu
Faculty webpage: http://cancer.ucsf.edu/people/profiles/folkman_susan.3532
Interests: Positive and Negative Emotions related to Physical Health; Caregiving, Bereavement, and Chronic Illness, primarily in those with HIV/Aids
Dacher Keltner (UCB)
Email address: keltner@berkeley.edu
Faculty webpage: http://psychology.berkeley.edu/people/dacher-keltner
Interests: Emotion; Social Interaction; Conflict and Negotiation; Culture
Charlan Nemeth (UCB)
Email address: charlan@berkeley.edu
Faculty webpage: http://psychology.berkeley.edu/people/charlan-jeanne-nemeth
Interests: Influence Processes; Psychology of creative scientists, artists and entrepreneurs
David Schkade (UCSD)
Email address: dschkade@ucsd.edu
Faculty webpage: http://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/schkade/
Interests: Psychology of Judgment; Decision Making
Jonathan Schooler (UCSB)
Email address: schooler@psych.ucsb.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/schooler/
Interests: Affective forecasting
Shelly Gable (UCSB)
Email address: gable@psych.ucsb.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/gable/
Interests: Motivation; Emotion; Health; Well-Being; Close Personal Relationships
Monica Worline (UCI)
Email address: mworline@uci.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.bus.umich.edu/positive/pos-research/Contributors/MonicaWorlin...
Interests: Organizational Psychology, Courage
Sarah Pressman (UCI)
Email address: sarah.pressman@uci.edu
Faculty webpage: http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/pressman/
Interests: Heath; Stress; Positive emotions
Joseph Mahoney (UCI)
Email address: joseph.mahoney@uci.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.business.illinois.edu/josephm/
Interests: Social Adjustment; Development; Well-Being
University of California, Davis
Robert Emmons
Email address: raemmons@ucdavis.edu
Faculty webpage: http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Emmons/
Interests: Religiousness and Spirituality in conjunction with Self and Identity, Well-Being
Phillip Shaver
Email address: prshaver@ucdavis.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.creatingconnections.nl/phillip-shaver1.html
Interests: Close Relationships; Emotion
Dean Keith Simonton
Email address: dksimonton@ucdavis.edu
Faculty webpage: http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/Simonton/
Interests: Genius; Creativity; Leadership; Aesthetics
University of California, Los Angeles
Julienne E. Bower
Email address: jbower@ucla.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psych.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty_page?id=99&area=11
Interests: Mind-body interactions; Stress; Effects of positive psychology on physical health
Alan Fiske
Email address: afiske@ucla.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/fiske/
Interests: Human Relationships
Annette Stanton
Email address: astanton@ucla.edu
Faculty webpage: http://portal.ctrl.ucla.edu/npi/institution/personnel?personnel_id=66568
Interests: Stress and coping
Shelley Taylor
Email address: taylors@psych.ucla.edu
Faculty webpage: https://taylorlab.psych.ucla.edu/
Interests: Social support; Social Cognition; Self-Regulation, Stress and coping; Positive Illusions
Emily vanSonnenberg
Email address: evansonnenberg@ucla.edu
Faculty webpage: https://www.uclaextension.edu/Pages/InstructorBio.aspx?instid=30071#courses
Interests: Well-being, motivation, positive interventions, meaning and purpose, creativity
University of California, Riverside
Howard Friedman
Email address: Howard.Friedman@ucr.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~friedman/ /
Interests: Personality and Health; Nonverbal Expressiveness; Charisma
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Email address: sonja.lyubomirsky@ucr.edu
Faculty webpage: http://sonjalyubomirsky.com/
Interests: Cognitive, Motivational, and Behavioral Processes in Subjective Happiness, The Architecture of Sustainable Happiness Cultural Influences on Happiness Responses to Depression
University of Cambridge
Nick Baylis
Email address: nick@hotironknowhow.com
Faculty webpage: http://www.nickbaylis.com/
Interests: Health and Well-being
Felicia Huppert
Email address: fah2@cam.ac.uk
Faculty webpage: www.cambridgewellbeing.org
Interests: Positive Emotions; Subjective Well-Being; National Indicators of Well-Being; Population Studies; Life-Course Approach
Claremont Graduate University
Tiffany Berry
Email address: tiffany.berry@cgu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.cgu.edu/pages/976.asp
Interests: Positive Developmental Psychology; Positive Youth Development; Program Evaluation
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Email address: miska@cgu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.cgu.edu/pages/4751.asp
Interests: Positive Developmental Psychology; Creativity and Innovation; Managing Flow
Stewart Donaldson
Email address: stewart.donaldson@cgu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.cgu.edu/pages/904.asp
Interests: Positive Organizational Psychology; Theory-driven Evaluation of Positive Psychology Interventions; Well-being; Positive Sports Psychology
Jeremy Hunter
Email address: jeremy.hunter@cgu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.cgu.edu/pages/2706.asp
Interests: Self-Management
Jeanne Nakamura
Email address: jeanne.nakamura@cgu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.cgu.edu/pages/4765.asp
Interests: Positive Developmental Psychology; Good Mentoring
Becky Reichard
Email address: Becky.Reichard@cgu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.cgu.edu/pages/6595.asp
Interests: Positive Organizational Behavior & Leadership Development
Jason Siegel
Email address: not provided
Faculty webpage: http://www.cgu.edu/pages/4661.asp
Interests: Positive Social and Health Psychology
Laura Wray-Lake
Email address: laura.wray-lake@cgu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.cgu.edu/pages/7966.asp
Interests: Positive Developmental Psychology; Values & Civic Engagement
University of Colorado at Boulder
Peter McGraw
Email address: peter.mcgraw@colorado.edu
Faculty webpage: http://leeds-faculty.colorado.edu/mcgrawp/
Interests: Judgment; Emotion; Choice; Humor
Leaf Van Boven
Email address: vanboven@colorado.edu
Faculty webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/leafvanboven/
Interests: Judgment; Emotion; Decision; Intuition
June Gruber
Email address: june.gruber@yale.edu
Faculty webpage: http://gruberpeplab.com/junegruber.php
Interests: Positive emotion & psychopathology
Emory University
Melvin Konner
Email address: antmk@emory.edu
Faculty webpage: http://anthropology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/konner.html
Interests: Anthropological Behavior Development
Corey Lee Keyes
Email address: ckeyes@emory.edu
Faculty webpage: http://sociology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/keyes-corey.html
Interests: Mental Health, Subjective Change, Positive Social Relationships, Generativity
Florida State University
Roy Baumeister
Email address: baumeister@psy.fsu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/baumeister.dp.html
Interests: Self; Emotion; Social Rejection/Belongingness; Self-esteem; Quest for Meaning
Frank Fincham
Email address: ffincham@fsu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.chs.fsu.edu/Faculty-Staff/FCS-Faculty-and-Staff/Faculty/Frank...
George Mason University
Todd B. Kashdan
Email address: tkashdan@gmu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://psychology.gmu.edu/people/tkashdan
Interests: Social Anxiety, Character Strengths, and Related Phenomena
James Maddux
Email address: jmaddux@gmu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://psychology.gmu.edu/people/jmaddux
Interests: Personal Effectiveness/Control on Psychological Adjustment and Behavior
Harvard University
Howard Gardner
Email address: hgasst@gse.harvard.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/faculty-detail/?fc=316&flt=...
Interests: Theory of Multiple Intelligences
University of Illinois
Dov Cohen
Email address: dovcohen@illinois.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psychology.illinois.edu/people/dovcohen
Interests: Cultural Continuity and Change
Ed Diener
Email address: ediener@cyrus.psych.illinois.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psychology.illinois.edu/people/ediener
Interests: Subjective Well-Being
University of Kansas
Omri Gillath
Email address: ogillath@ku.edu
Faculty webpage: http://gillath.socialpsychology.org/
Interests: Close Relationships; Attachment, Caregiving and Sexual Mating Systems
University of Michigan
Edward Chang
Email address: changec@umich.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/faculty/ci.changedward_ci.detail
Interests: Adjustment; Optimism and Pessimism; Perfectionism; Social Problem Solving
Jane Dutton
Email address: janedut@umich.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000119663
Interests: Organization Conditions Enabling Thriving
Jacquelynne Eccles
Email address: jeccles@umich.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.soe.umich.edu/people/profile/eccles_jacquelynne/
Interests: Family and School Influences on Development
Afton Hassett
Email address: not provided
Faculty webpage: http://www.med.umich.edu/painresearch/staff/index.html#hassett
Interests: Positive health, Positive affect/Affective balance in chronic pain
Shinobu Kitayama
Email address: kitayama@umich.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/fulldirectory/ci.kitayamashinobu_c...
Interests: Self Evaluation, Emotional Experience and Well-Being
Richard Nisbett
Email address: nisbett@umich.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/fulldirectory/ci.nisbettrichard_ci...
Interests: Culture; Social Class; Aging
Norbert Schwarz
Email address: nschwarz@umich.edu
Faculty webpage: http://schwarz.socialpsychology.org/
Interests: Social Cognition
Middle Tennessee State University
Tom Brinthaupt
Email address: Tom.Brinthaupt@mtsu.edu
Faculty webpage:http://w3.mtsu.edu/psychology/faculty/Thomas%20Brinthaupt.pdf
Interests: Social Personality, Psychology of Self, Group Dynamics
Bill Compton
Email address: William.Compton@mtsu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://w3.mtsu.edu/psychology/faculty/William%20Compton.pdf
Interests: Well-being, Stress, East/West Psychology
John Pennington
Email address: John.Pennington@mtsu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://w3.mtsu.edu/psychology/faculty/john%20pennington.pdf
Interests: Social/personality, Social Judgment processes, Identity Regulation
University of Minnesota
Robert F. Krueger
Email address: krueg038@umn.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psych.umn.edu/people/profile.php?UID=krueg038
Interests: Personality disorders; Behavior Genetics; Mental Disorders; Quantitative Methods
Arthur J. Reynolds
Email address: ajr@umn.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.cehd.umn.edu/icd/people/faculty/Reynolds.html
Interests: Prevention Research; Program Evaluation; Child Development
University of Missouri
Gustavo Carlo
Email address: carlog@missouri.edu
Faculty webpage: http://carlo.socialpsychology.org/
Interests: Individual and Cultural Correlates of Positive Social and Moral Behaviors
Laura A. King
Email address: kingla@missouri.edu
Faculty webpage: http://psychology.missouri.edu/kingla
Interests: Personality Psychology, Well-being, Motivation, Meaning in Life, The Good Life
Kennon Sheldon
Email address: sheldonk@Missouri.edu
Faculty webpage: http://psychology.missouri.edu/sheldonk
Interests: Effect of Personal Goals on Development and Well-Being
Monash University (Melbourne, Australia)
Darryl Maybery
Email address: darryl.maybery@monash.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.monash.edu.au/research/people/profiles/profile.html?sid=25260...
Interests: Health Psychology; Mental Health; Well-Being
Dianne Vella-Brodrick
Email address: Dianne.Vella-Brodrick@ med.monash.edu.au
Faculty webpage: http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person127276
Interests: Positive psychology interventions, orientations to happiness (pleasure, engagement and meaning), workplace well-being.
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Richard Dienstbier
Email address: rdienstbier2@unl.edu
Faculty webpage: http://directory.unl.edu/?uid=rdienstbier2
Interests: Motivation, Emotion, Human Sexuality
Fred Luthans
Email address: fluthans1@unl.edu
Faculty webpage: http://cba.unl.edu/people/fluthans
Interests: Positive Psychological Capital; Organizational Behavior Modification
New York University
Jon Haidt
Email address: jhaidt@stern.nyu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://people.stern.nyu.edu/jhaidt/
Interests: Morality; Moral Emotion; Elevation; Awe; Cultural and Positive Psychology
University of North Carolina
Melanie Green (Chapel Hill)
Email address: mcgreen@unc.edu
Faculty webpage: http://green.socialpsychology.org/
Interests: Power of Narrative to Change Beliefs
Barbara Fredrickson (Chapel Hill)
Email address: blf@email.unc.edu
Faculty webpage: http://fredrickson.socialpsychology.org/
Interests: Emotions; Well-Being
Melissa J. Himelein (Asheville)
Email address: himelein@unca.edu
Faculty webpage: https://sites.google.com/a/unca.edu/himelein/
Interests: Health Psychology; Psychology of Women
Paul Silvia (Greensboro)
Email address: p_silvia@uncg.edu
Faculty webpage: http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/clist.aspx?id=402
Interests: The self; Self-Awareness; Self-Motivation; Cognition; Emotion
Northeastern University
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Email address: l.barrett@neu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.northeastern.edu/psychology/people/faculty/lisa-feldman-barrett/
Interests: Emotion; The structure of emotion
Derek Isaacowitz
Email address: dmi@neu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.northeastern.edu/psychology/people/faculty/derek-m-isaacowitz/
Interests: Life-Span Development; Emotion in Adulthood and Old Age.
University of Pennsylvania
Angela Duckworth
Email address: duckwort@psych.upenn.edu
Faculty webpage: http://ppc.sas.upenn.edu/people/angela-duckworth
Interests: Self control and Grit
Adam Grant
Email address: adam@giveandtake.com
Faculty webpage: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/1323/
Interests: Work motivation, Prosocial helping and giving, Job design and meaningful work, Employee initiative and proactivity, Leadership, and Burnout
Karen Reivich
Email address: reivich@psych.upenn.edu
Faculty webpage: http://ppc.sas.upenn.edu/people/karen-reivich
Interests: Resilience, Optimism, Teaching Positive Psychology and Resilience, Coaching
James Pawelski
Email address: pawelski@psych.upenn.edu
Faculty webpage: http://ppc.sas.upenn.edu/people/james-pawelski
Interests: Philosophical Underpinnings of Positive Psychology, Positive Humanities, Positive Interventions, Character Development, Life Coaching
Paul Rozin
Email address: Rozin@psych.upenn.edu
Faculty webpage: https://sites.sas.upenn.edu/rozin
Interests: Ethnopolitcal Conflict; Developmental, Evolutionary, Positive Psychology
Martin Seligman
Email address: SeligmanInfo@psych.upenn.edu
Faculty webpage: http://ppc.sas.upenn.edu/people/martin-ep-seligman
Interests: Positive Psychology; Optimism; Learned Helplessness, Depression
Richard Summers
Email address: summersr@mail.med.upenn.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.med.upenn.edu/psychres/Summers.html
Interests: Positive Emotions in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Strength Development in Psychotherapy and Positive Psychology Interventions
University of Rochester
Richard Ryan
Email address: richard.ryan@rochester.edu
Faculty webpage:http://www.psych.rochester.edu/people/ryan_richard/index.html
Interests: Human Motivation; Personality Development; Well-Being
Harry Reis
Email address: harry.reis@rochester.edu
Faculty webpage: http://reis.socialpsychology.org/
Interests: Social Interactions, Close Relationships
Stanford University
James Gross
Email address: gross@stanford.edu
Faculty webpage: https://psychology.stanford.edu/jgross
Interests: Emotion; Emotion Regulation
Mark Lepper
Email address: lepper@stanford.edu
Faculty webpage: https://psychology.stanford.edu/mlepper
Interests: Social
Swarthmore College
Jane Gillham
Email address: jgillha1@swarthmore.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.swarthmore.edu/profile/jane-gillham
Interests: Clinical Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Education
Barry Schwartz
Email address: bschwar1@swarthmore.edu
Faculty webpage:http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bschwar1/
Interests: Psychology & Economics; Intrinsic/Extrinsic motivation; Human Values
Andrew Ward
Email address: award1@swarthmore.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/award1/
Interests: Social
University of Texas
David M. Buss
Email address: dbuss@psy.utexas.edu
Faculty webpage: http://buss.socialpsychology.org/
Interests: Evolutionary Human Mating Strategies; Social relationships
James Pennebaker
Email address: Pennebaker@mail.utexas.edu
Faculty webpage: http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/pennebaker/home2000/jwph...
Interests: Social Psychology & Psychosomatics; Language and Health; Traumatic Events
Texas Tech University
Clyde Hendrick
Email address: clyde.hendrick@ttu.edu
Faculty webpage:http://www.depts.ttu.edu/psy/people/chendrick.php
Interests: Close Relationships
Susan Hendrick
Email address: s.hendrick@ttu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/psy/people/shendrick.php
Interests: Close Relationships; Love; Sex Attitudes, Relationship Satisfaction, Gender
Darcy Reich
Email address: darcy.reich@ttu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/psy/people/dreich.php
Interests: Expectancy-Related Biases in Social Judgments and Interpersonal Behaviors
Chris Robitschek
Email address: Chris.Robitschek@ttu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/psy/people/crobitschek.php
Interests: Humanism; Holistic Approach to Counseling
Todd Little
Email address: yhat@ku.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/provost/facultybios/2013/todd_little.php
Interests: Motivation, Self-Regulation
University of Utah
Lisa G. Aspinwall
Email address: lisa.aspinwall@psych.utah.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psych.utah.edu/people/person.php?id=47
Interests: Interpersonal Processes; Self Regulation; Health
Cindy Berg
Email address: cynthia.berg@psych.utah.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psych.utah.edu/people/person.php?id=50
Interests: Diversity; Interpersonal Processes; Social-Developmental; Self Regulation; Health
Kevin Rathunde
Email address: kevin.rathunde@fcs.utah.edu
Faculty webpage: http://faculty.utah.edu/u0029523-KEVIN_R._RATHUNDE/teaching/index.hml
Interests: Adolescent Development
Carol Sansone
Email address: carol.sansone@psych.utah.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psych.utah.edu/people/person.php?id=74
Interests: Diversity; Interpersonal Processes; Social-Developmental; Self Regulation
Vanderbilt University
Colin Armstrong
Email address: colin.armstrong@vanderbilt.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.vanderbilthealth.com/dayani/15179
Interests: Positive Psychology & Coaching, Positive Health, Interventions
Camilla Persson Benbow
Email address: camilla.benbow@vanderbilt.edu
Faculty webpage: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/publications/camilla-benbow/
Interests: Developmental Psychology; Creativity; Eminence; Giftedness
Elisabeth Dykens
Email address: elisabeth.dykens@vanderbilt.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/psychological_sciences/bio/elisabeth-dykens
Interests: Mental retardation, Clinical Psychology
Leslie Kirby
Email address: leslie.kirby@vanderbilt.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/psychological_sciences/bio/leslie-kirby
Interests: Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
John Lachs
Email address: john.lachs@vanderbilt.edu
Faculty webpage:http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/philosophy/_people/_lachs.html
Interests: Human Nature; Philosophy
David Lubinski
Email address: david.lubinski@vanderbilt.edu
Faculty webpage: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/publications/david-lubinski/
Interests: Quantitative Methods
University of Virginia
Gerald Clore
Email address: gclore@virginia.edu
Faculty webpage: http://avillage.web.virginia.edu/Psych/Faculty/Profile/Gerald-Clore
Interests: Cognition; Decision and Judgment Making
Shigehiro Oishi
Email address: soishi@virginia.edu
Faculty webpage: http://avillage.web.virginia.edu/Psych/Faculty/Profile/Shigehiro-Oishi
Interests: Social Ecology; Culture; Well-Being
Tim Wilson
Email address: tdw@virginia.edu
Faculty webpage: http://avillage.web.virginia.edu/Psych/Faculty/Profile/Timothy-D-Wilson
Interests: Affective Forecasting, Self-Knowledge, Social Cognition, Attitudes, Stereotyping, Values
University of Waterloo
John Holmes
Email address: jholmes@uwaterloo.ca
Faculty webpage: http://www.psychology.uwaterloo.ca/people/faculty/jholmes/index.html
Interests: Interpersonal Relationships
Steve Spencer
Email address: sspencer@uwaterloo.ca
Faculty webpage: http://www.psychology.uwaterloo.ca/people/faculty/sspencer/index.html
Interests: Motivation; Self; Stereotyping
Joanne Wood
Email address: jwood@uwaterloo.ca
Faculty webpage: http://www.psychology.uwaterloo.ca/people/faculty/jwood/index.html
Interests: Dispositional Self-Esteem; Savoring; Emotion Regulation
Mark Zanna
Email address: mzanna@uwaterloo.ca
Faculty webpage: http://www.psychology.uwaterloo.ca/people/faculty/mzanna/index.html
Interests: Psychology of Attitudes
Western Oregon University
Ethan A. McMahan
Email address: mcmahane@mail.wou.edu
Faculty webpage: https://www.wou.edu/resources/faculty-staff-info/?u=mcmahane
Interests: Positive psychology, folk concepts of happiness, conceptions of well-being, contact with nature, nature connectedness
Jessica Murfin
Email address: murfinj@wou.edu
Faculty webpage: https://wou.edu/resources/faculty-staff-info/?u=murfinj
Interests: Positive Psychology, Positive Organizational Psychology, Teamwork, Leadership, Creativity, Organizational Creativity and Innovation
University of Wisconsin
Jeana L. Magyar-Moe
Email address: jmagyarm@uwsp.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www4.uwsp.edu/psych/jmagyarm/
Interests: Positive psychology, diversity issues, therapy process & outcome, the scholarship of teaching & learning
Carol Ryff
Email address: cryff@wisc.edu
Faculty webpage: http://glial.psych.wisc.edu/index.php/psychsplashfacstaff/120
Interests: Well-Being and Social Influences
Yale University
John Bargh
Email address: john.bargh@yale.edu
Faculty webpage: http://bargh.socialpsychology.org/
Interests: Cognition; Motivation; Emotion
Peter Salovey
Email address: Peter.Salovey@yale.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.yale.edu/about/salovey.html
Interests: Social Psychology; Personality
Edward Zigler
Email address: edward.zigler@yale.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.yale.edu/zigler/index.html
Interests: Child Development and Social Policy
Amy Wrzesniewski
Email address: awrzesni@ stern.nyu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://som.yale.edu/amy-wrzesniewski
Interests: Making Meaning in the Workplace; Organizational Psychology
The following universities have one faculty that we are aware of who have an interest in Positive Psychology.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Gitendra Uswatte
Email address: guswatte@uab.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.uab.edu/cas/psychology/psy-fac/33-primary-faculty/64-dr-giten...
Interests: Character Strengths
University of Arkansas
Elizabeth Howlett
Email address: bhowlett@walton.uark.edu
Faculty webpage: http://waltoncollege.uark.edu/directory.asp?id=ehowlett
Interests: Consumer Behavior; Behavioral Decision Research
Avila University
Maria Hunt
Email address: Maria.Hunt@avila.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.avila.edu/psychology/mariahunt.asp
Interests: Healthy Psychology and mindfulness
Bellevue University
Carolyn M. Youssef
Email address: carolyn.youssef@bellevue.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.bellevue.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/youssef-carolyn.aspx
University of British Columbia
Darrin Lehman
Email address: dlehman@psych.ubc.ca
Faculty webpage: http://psych.ubc.ca/persons/darrin-lehman/
Interests: Cross-cultural research; health psychology; counterfactual thinking.
Eric Kim
Email address: eric.kim@psych.ubc.ca
Faculty webpage: https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/eric-kim/
Interests: Psychological Well-Being (e.g., Purpose in Life, Optimism) and Physical Health; Health Psychology; Positive Aging; Social Epidemiology
Brown University
Bertram Malle
Email address: Bertram_Malle@brown.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/CLPS/people/bertram-malle
Interests: Human Behavior; Social Interaction; Folk Theory of Mind
University at Buffalo
Email address: smurray@buffalo.edu
Faculty webpage: http://sandra.murray.socialpsychology.org/
Clark University
Lene Jensen
Email address: ljensen@clarku.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/facultybio.cfm?id=616
Interests: Civic Engagement in Immigrants, Moral Development
Colorado State University
Michael Steger
Email address: michael.f.steger@colostate.edu
Faculty webpage: http://psy.psych.colostate.edu/psylist/detail.asp?Num=263
Interests: Meaning in life, posttraumatic growth and resilience, and positive psychology in psychopathology and health psychology research
Columbia University
Sheena Iyengar
Email address: ss957@columbia.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/cbs-directory/detail/494889/Sheena+Iyengar
Interests: Choice; Decisions
University of Connecticut
Joel Kupperman
Email address: joel.kupperman@uconn.edu
Faculty webpage: http://web2.uconn.edu/philosophy/department/kupperman/vjk.pdf
Interests: Philosophy, The Good Life, Ethics
University College Cork (Ireland)
Zelda Di Blasi
Email address: z.diblasi@ucc.ie
Faculty webpage: http://research.ucc.ie/profiles/A011/zdiblasi
Interests: Positive Emotion; Happiness/Well-being; Meditation/Yoga; Gratitude; Placebo Effect
Cornell University
Anthony Ong
Email address: ado4@cornell.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.human.cornell.edu/bio.cfm?netid=ado4
Interests: Resilience, Positive Emotions, Social Connectedness
University of Delaware
Jean-Philippe Laurenceau
Email address: jlaurenceau@psych.udel.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psych.udel.edu/people/detail/laurenceau/
Interests: Relationships
University of Denver
Brian Cicero
Email address: brian.cicero@du.edu
Faculty webpage: https://universitycollege.du.edu/instructors/instructor-bio.cfm?empid=2035
Interests: Cultural Intelligence and Psychological Capital, Well-Being, Motivation, Emotion, Development
Duke University
Daniel S. Bowling, III
Email address: dabowling@gmail.com
Faculty webpage: http://law.duke.edu/fac/bowling/
University of Edinburgh
Mark Hoelterhoff
Email address: mark.hoelterhoff@ed.ac.uk
Faculty webpage: https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/markhoelterhoff
Interests: Strengths-based Resilience, Psychological Capital, Post-traumatic Growth
Fielding Graduate University
Pamela B. Rutledge
Email address: prutledge@fielding.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.pamelarutledge.com/about/
Interests: Media psychology, positive use of media, media and social change
University of Florida
Monika Ardelt
Email address: ardelt@soc.ufl.edu
Faculty webpage: http://users.clas.ufl.edu/ardelt/
Interests: Human Development; Aging; Wisdom, Purpose in Life, Religiosity, Dying Well
Furman University
Charles Brewer
Email address: charles.brewer@furman.edu
Faculty webpage: http://wwwtemp.furman.edu/academics/psychology/meet-our-faculty/Pages/Ch...
Interests: Learning; Memory; History of Psychology
George Washington University
Steve Wolin
Email address: info@projectresilience.com
Faculty webpage: http://projectresilience.com/framesaboutus.htm
Interests: Resiliency
Hope College
David Myers
Email address: myers@hope.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.hope.edu/academic/psychology/myers/index.html
Interests: Social Psychologist; Psychological science writer
James Madison University
Kenneth E. Barron
Email address: barronke@jmu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psyc.jmu.edu/psycsciences/people/barron.html
Interests: Motivation, Positive Psychology
Jaime Kurtz
Email address: kurtzjl@jmu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psyc.jmu.edu/ug/people/kurtz.html
Interests: Savoring, decision-making, well-being
Jefferson College of Health Sciences
Bob Reese
Email address: rcreese@jchs.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.jchs.edu/employee/robert-c-bob-reese-phd
Interests: Performance; Health Psychology
Johns Hopkins
Stephen Drigotas
Email address: drigotas@jhu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Stephen-Drigotas/78112783
Interests: Close Relationships
University of Jyväskylä
Sofia Kauko-Valli
Email address: sofia.kauko-valli@jyu.fi
Faculty webpage: http://jyu.academia.edu/sofiakaukovalli
Kent State
Manfred Van Dulmen
Email address: mvandul@kent.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www2.kent.edu/CAS/Psychology/people/~mvandul/
Interests: Interpersonal Relationships, Behavior
University of Kentucky
Suzanne Segerstrom
Email address: scsege0@email.uky.edu
Faculty webpage: http://psychology.as.uky.edu/users/scsege0
Interests: Personality; Cognition; Emotion; Physiological Effect of Stressors
Lehigh University
Debbie Laible
Email address: del205@lehigh.edu
Faculty webpage: http://psychology.cas2.lehigh.edu/content/del205
Interests: Parent-Child Discourse, Attachment
Leuven University
Batja Mesquita
Email address: mesquita@psy.kuleuven.be
Faculty webpage: http://ppw.kuleuven.be/home/english/research/cscp/people/copy_of_batja-m...
Interests: Cultural Psychology; Emotional Psychology
Lindsey Wilson College
Marie C. Shafe
Email address: shafem@lindsey.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.rollins.edu/catalogue/presidents_officers_staff_faculty/emeri...
Interests: Positive psychology in counseling
University of Louisville
Patrick Pössel
Email address: patrick.possel@louisville.edu
Faculty webpage: http://louisville.edu/education/faculty/possel/
Interests: Prevention of depression; mind-body connection
University of Maine at Farmington
Karol Maybury
Email address: karol.maybury@maine.edu
Faculty webpage: https://www.umf.maine.edu/about/faculty-staff/karol-maybury/
Interests: The teaching of positive psychology, Gender and emotion
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Marie Dacey
Email address: marie.dacey@mcphs.edu
Faculty webpage: https://www.mcphs.edu/about%20mcphs/directory%20listing/Bio?id=0034227
Interests: Positive Aging, Behavioral Health
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rosalind Picard
Email address: picard@media.mit.edu
Faculty webpage: http://web.media.mit.edu/~picard/index.php
Interests: Affective computing, technology for helping people with empathy, emotion support and communication
McGill University
Nancy Heath
Email address: nancy.heath@mcgill.ca
Faculty webpage: http://dairheathresearchteam.mcgill.ca
Interests: Mindfulness, emotion regulation, positive emotions
Memorial University
Greg Radu
Email address: gmradu@mun.ca
Faculty webpage: https://www.med.mun.ca/Medicine/Faculty/Radu,-G.aspx
Interests: Resilience, Self-regulation, Positive emotions and character and Positive psychology interventions use in psychiatric practice
Metropolitan State College of Denver
Alexis Karris Bachik
Email address: akbachik@msudenver.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.msudenver.edu/searchchannel/jsp/directoryprofile/profile.jsp?...
Interests: VIA-IS character strengths, happiness, and optimal living
University of Miami
Mike McCullough
Email address: mikem@miami.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psy.miami.edu/faculty/mmccullough/
Interests: Psychology and Biology of Human Prosociality; Forgiveness; Reconciliation; Gratitude
Michigan State University
Richard Lucas
Email address: lucasri@msu.edu
Faculty webpage: https://www.msu.edu/~lucasri/
Interests: Personality and Emotion; Function of pleasant affect; Causes of life satisfaction
Eastern Michigan University
Brian Bruya
Email address: bbruya@emich.edu
Faculty webpage: http://people.emich.edu/bbruya/
Interests: Flow, Effortlessness, Spontaneity, Improvisation, Wisdom Education, Character Strengths and Virtues
University of Montana-Missoula
David Schuldberg
Email address: david.schuldberg@umontana.edu
Faculty webpage: http://psychweb.psy.umt.edu/www/facultyDetails.aspx?id=714
Munich University of Applied Sciences
Emily vanSonnenberg
Email address: emily.vansonnenberg@hm.edu
Faculty webpage: http://psychpositive.org/universitycourses
Interests: Meaningful work, Motivation, Creativity, Character Strengths, Positive Interventions, Positive Psychology
New School for Social Research
Joan Miller
Email address: millerj@newschool.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.newschool.edu/lang/faculty.aspx?id=1704
Interests: Motivation; Moral Judgment; Close Relationships; Theory of Mind; Attachment
North Carolina State University
John "Sean" Doyle
Email address: jadoyle@ncsu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.ncsu.edu/directory/moreinfo.php?username=jadoyle
Interests: Meaning, Connection, Awe, Negotiation, Resilience, Well-Being in the Workplace
North Dakota State University
Michael Robinson
Email address: Michael.D.Robinson@ndsu.nodak.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~hilmert/SPRG/SPRG/Michael_D_Robinson.html
Interests: Personality; Self-Regulation; Automaticity; Subjective Well-Being; Aggression
Northwestern University
Dan McAdams
Email address: dmca@northwestern.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/psych/people/faculty/faculty_individual...
Interests: Personality; Development; Identity; Intimacy; Biography; Generativity
Judith Moskowitz (UCSF)
Email address: moskj@ocim.ucsf.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=30504
Interests: Coping and Emotion in the context of Health-related Chronic Stress
Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
Aaron Jarden
Email address: aaron.jarden@ openpolytechnic.ac.nz
Faculty webpage: http://www.aut.ac.nz/profiles/aaron-jarden
Interests: values, savouring, grit, hope, strengths
Ottawa University, Phoenix
Dean Colston
Email address: not provided
Faculty webpage: http://onl.ottawa.edu/instructors.pdf
Interests: Emotional intelligence and academic achievement; affective and social neuroscience
University of Ottawa
Veronika Huta
Email address: vhuta@uottawa.ca
Faculty webpage: http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/psy/professor-profile?&id=735
Interests: Eudaimonia; Hedonia; Well-being; Meaning; Elevation
University of Otago
Sebastian Filep
Email address: sebastian.filep@otago.ac.nz
Faculty webpage: http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/tourism/staff/filep.html
Interests: Tourism, Leisure, and Positive Psychology
Princeton University
Daniel Kahneman
Email address: kahneman@princeton.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.princeton.edu/~kahneman/
Interests: Decision Making; Judgment
Rochester Institue of Technology
Jeffrey Baker
Email address: doctorb@frontiernet.net
Faculty webpage: not provided
Interests: Creative strengths; Designing positive emotions
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Yueh-Ting Lee (SIUC)
Email address: Leey@siu.edu
Faculty webpage: https://cola.siu.edu/psychology/faculty-staff/faculty-list/lee-yuehting.php
Interests: Positive human beliefs, Daoist (harmonious) psychology, perception accuracy and positive/rational human nature, applied evolutionary and cultural psychology
University of South Florida
Jenni Menon Mariano
Email address: not provided
Faculty webpage: http://usfsm.edu/faculty-members/dr-jenni-menon-mariano/
Interests: Purpose, Moral Development and Character Education, Youth Thriving
St. Olaf College
Donna McMillan
Email address: mcmillan@stolaf.edu
Faculty webpage: https://pages.stolaf.edu/mcmillan/
Interests: Psychological Well-Being, Personality, Psychological Significance of the Natural World
Syracuse University
Nancy Cantor
Email address: ncantor@syr.edu
Faculty webpage: http://cantor.socialpsychology.org/
Interests: N/A
United States Military Academy
Michael Matthews
Email address: mike.matthews@usma.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.usma.edu/bsl/SitePages/Michael%20Matthews.aspx
Interests: Situational awareness/understanding of the Infantry battlefield
University of Tampa
Patty O'Grady
Email address: pogrady@ut.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.ut.edu/PattyOGrady/
Interests: Positive Psychology in the Classroom, Well-Being, and Flow
Temple University
Xu (Lilya) Jiang
Email address: xjiang2@temple.edu
Faculty webpage: https://education.temple.edu/about/faculty-staff/xu-lilya-jiang-tuo07644
Interests: Psychological strengths, well-being, positive youth development, resilience
Vassar College
Michele M. Tugade
Email address: mitugade@vassar.edu
Faculty webpage: http://faculty.vassar.edu/mitugade/
Interests: Positive emotions, emotion regulation, resilience, working memory
University of Victoria
Frederick Grouzet
Email address: fgrouzet@ uvic.ca
Faculty webpage: http://web.uvic.ca/psyc/grouzet/
Interests: Personal goals, well-being, life transition, meaning, cross-cultural psychology
Western Governors University
Sunil Ramlall
Email address: sunil.ramlall@wgu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.wgu.edu
Interests: Positive Organizational Behavior, Employee Engagement, Happiness at Work
University of Western Ontario
Rod Martin
Email address: ramartin@uwo.ca
Faculty webpage: http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/martin_res.htm
Interests: Psychology of Humor; Psychosocial stress and Health; Personality; Coping Strategies
Western Washington University
Meg Warren
Email address: meg.warren@wwu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.megwarren.com
Interests: Positive Psychology approaches to diversity and inclusion, exemplary allyship, other-oriented virtues, cultural factors affecting well-being
Whitworth University
Patricia Bruininks
Email address: pbruininks@whitworth.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.whitworth.edu/academic/faculty/index.aspx?username=pbruininks
Interests: Difference Between Hope and Optimism; Trait of Hopelessness; Hope and Decision-Making; Measuring Emotional Experience
Zurich University
Willibald Ruch
Email address: w.ruch@psychologie.uzh.ch
Faculty webpage: http://www.psychologie.uzh.ch/fachrichtungen/perspsy/ueber-uns/team/ruch...
Interests: Positive Emotions; Humor; Character Strengths and Virtues