Positive Psychology Educational Programs
The following is an alphabetized list of some of the many 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 comprehensive and probably not entirely up to date, but we collected as much information as we could and is to the best of our knowledge.
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Gene Terry, IPPA Administrative Director.
Boston College
Ellen Winner
Interests: Learning and cognition in the arts in typical and gifted children
Maya Tamir
Interests: Emotions; Emotion Regulation; Well-Being
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Email address:
Interests: Emotion; The structure of emotion
Chilean Institute of Positive Psychology
Claudio Ibañez S.
Interests: Positive Organizational Behavior, Positive Psychotherapy
Claremont Graduate University
Mikhaly Csikszentmihalyi
Interests: Positive Developmental Psychology; Creativity and Innovation; Managing Flow
Jeremy Hunter
Interests: Self-Management
Jeanne Nakamura
Interests: Positive Developmental Psychology; Good Mentoring
Colorado State University
Michael F. Steger
Interests: Meaning in life, Health-related quality of life, Well-being, Positive health factors
Cornell University
Anthony Ong
Interests: Resilience, Positive Emotions, Social Connectedness
Emory University
Melvin Konner
Interests: Anthropological Behavior Development
George Mason University
Todd B. Kashdan
Interests: Social Anxiety, Character Strengths, and Related Phenomena
James Maddux
Interests: Personal Effectiveness/Control on Psychological Adjustment and Behavior
Harvard University
Tal Ben-Shachar
Interests: Self-Esteem, Meditation/Yoga, Leadership, Positive Psychology
Daniel Gilbert
Interests: Affective Forecasting
Dan Wegner
Interests: Perception and Cognition Control
Instituto Superior de Cincias Sociais e Politicas/Superior Institute on Social and Political Sciences,Technical University Of Lisbon
Helena Agueda Marujo & Luis Miguel Neto
Email Address: hmarujo@iscsp.utl.pt
Faculty Website:
Interests:
Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (MSPP)
Faculty webpage:
http://www.mspp.edu/about/faculty/haddad-david.asp
Interests: Team Building, Cultivating Strengths, Collaborative Evaluation
Middle Tennessee State University
Tom Brinthaupt
Interests: Social Personality, Psychology of Self, Group Dynamics
John Pennington
Interests: Social/personality, Social Judgment processes, Identity Regulation
Northern Kentucky University
Rachel Clark
Faculty Email Address:
Interests: well-being, learned optimism, resilience training
Stanford University
James Gross
Interests: Emotion; Emotion Regulation
Mark Lepper
Interests: Social
Swarthmore College
Jane Gillham
Interests: Clinical Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Education
Barry Schwartz
Interests: Psychology & Economics; Intrinsic/Extrinsic motivation; Human Values
Andrew Ward
Interests: Social
Texas Tech University
Clyde Hendrick
Interests: Close Relationships
Susan Hendrick
Interests: Close Relationships; Love; Sex Attitudes, Relationship Satisfaction, Gender
Darcy Reich
Interests: Expectancy-Related Biases in Social Judgments and Interpersonal Behaviors
Chris Robitschek
Interests: Humanism; Holistic Approach to Counseling
University of British Columbia
Darrin Lehman
Interests: Cross-cultural research; health psychology; counterfactual thinking.
University at Buffalo
Sandra Murray
Interests: Positive illusions in romantic relationships; Positive Relationships
Brett Pelham
Interests: Social Perception; Positive or Negative Associations of Self
University of California (Berkeley, San Francisco, San Diego)
David Schkade (UCSD)
Interests: Psychology of Judgment; Decision Making
University of California, Davis
Robert Emmons
Interests: Religiousness and Spirituality in conjunction with Self and Identity, Well-Being
Phillip Shaver
Interests: Close Relationships; Emotion
Dean Keith Simonton
Interests: Genius; Creativity; Leadership; Aesthetics
University of California, Los Angeles
Julienne E. Bower
Interests:
Alan Fiske
Interests: Human Relationships
Shelley Taylor
Interests: Social support; Social Cognition; Self-Regulation, Stress and coping; Positive Illusions
University of California, Riverside
Ruth Chao
Interests: Asian immigrant family socialization; Parental Belief Systems
Howard Friedman
Interests: Personality and Health; Nonverbal Expressiveness; Charisma
Sonja Lyubomirsky
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
Interests:
Felicia Huppert
Interests: Positive Emotions; Subjective Well-Being; National Indicators of Well-Being; Population Studies; Life-Course Approach
University of Illinois
Dov Cohen
Interests: Cultural Continuity and Change
Ed Diener
Interests: Subjective Well-Being
University of Kansas
Omri Gillath
Interests: Close Relationships; Attachment, Caregiving and Sexual Mating Systems
Todd Little
Interests: Motivation, Self-Regulation
University of Miami
Mike McCullough
Interests: Psychology and Biology of Human Prosociality; Forgiveness; Reconciliation; Gratitude
University of Michigan
Edward Chang
Interests: Adjustment; Optimism and Pessimism; Perfectionism; Social Problem Solving
Jane Dutton
Interests: Organization Conditions Enabling Thriving
Jacque Eccles
Interests: Family and School Influences on Development
Shinobu Kitayama
Interests: Self Evaluation, Emotional Experience and Well-Being
Richard Nisbett
Interests: Culture; Social Class; Aging
Norbert Schwarz
Interests: Social Cognition
University of Missouri
Laura A. King
Interests: Personality Psychology, Well-being, Motivation, Meaning in Life, The Good Life
Kennon Sheldon
Interests: Affect of Personal Goals on Development and Well-Being
University of North Carolina
Melanie Green (Chapel Hill)
Interests: Power of Narrative to Change Beliefs
Barbara Fredrickson (Chapel Hill)
Interests: Emotions; Well-Being
Melissa J. Himelein (Asheville)
Interests: Health Psychology; Psychology of Women
Paul Silvia (Greensboro)
Interests: The self; Self-Awareness; Self-Motivation; Cognition; Emotion
University of Otago, New Zealand
Tamlin Conner
Email address: tconner@psy.otago.ac.nz
Faculty webpage: http://www.otago.ac.nz/psychology/staff/tamlinconner.html
Interests: Emotional and Physical Well-being; Experience Sampling / Daily Diary Methods; Genetics of Well-being
University of Pennsylvania
Karen Reivich
Faculty webpage:
Interests: Resilience, Optimism, Teaching Positive Psychology and Resilience, Coaching
James Pawelski
Faculty webpage:
Interests: Philosophical Underpinnings of Positive Psychology, Positive Humanities, Positive Interventions, Character Development, Life Coaching
Paul Rozin
Interests: Ethnopolitcal Conflict; Developmental, Evolutionary, Positive Psychology
Martin Seligman
Interests: Positive Psychology; Optimism; Learned Helplessness, Depression
Richard Summers
Faculty webpage: Under Construction
Interests: Positive Emotions in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Strength Development in Psychotherapy and Positive Psychology Interventions
University of Rochester
Richard Ryan
Interests: Human Motivation; Personality Development; Well-Being
Harry Reis
Interests: Social Interactions, Close Relationships
University of Texas
David M. Buss
Interests: Evolutionary Human Mating Strategies; Social relationships
James Pennebaker
Interests: Social Psychology & Psychosomatics; Language and Health; Traumatic Events
University of Utah
Lisa G. Aspinwall
Interests: Interpersonal Processes; Self Regulation; Health
Cindy Berg
Interests: Diversity; Interpersonal Processes; Social-Developmental; Self Regulation; Health
Kevin Rathunde
Interests: Adolescent Development
Carol Sansone
Interests: Diversity; Interpersonal Processes; Social-Developmental; Self Regulation
University of Virginia
Gerald Clore
Interests: Cognition; Decision and Judgment Making
Jon Haidt
Interests: Morality; Moral Emotion; Elevation; Awe; Cultural and Positive Psychology
Shigehiro Oishi
Interests: Social Ecology; Culture; Well-Being
Tim Wilson
Interests: Affective Forecasting, Self-Knowledge, Social Cognition, Attitudes, Stereotyping, Values
University of Waterloo
John Holmes
Interests: Interpersonal Relationships
Steve Spencer
Interests: Motivation; Self; Stereotyping
Joanne Wood
Interests: Dispositional Self-Esteem; Savoring; Emotion Regulation
Mark Zanna
Interests: Psychology of Attitudes
University of Wisconsin
Jeana L. Magyar-Moe
Interests: Positive psychology, diversity issues, therapy process & outcome, the scholarship of teaching & learning
Arthur J. Reynolds
Interests: Prevention Research; Program Evaluation; Child Development
Carol Ryff
Faculty webpage:
Interests: Well-Being and Social Influences
Vanderbilt University
Camilla Persson Benbow
Interests: Developmental Psychology; Creativity; Eminence; Giftedness
Elisabeth Dykens
Interests: Mental retardation, Clinical Psychology
John Lachs
Interests: Human Nature; Philosophy
David Lubinski
Interests: Quantitative Methods
Yale University
John Bargh
Interests: Cognition; Motivation; Emotion
Peter Salovey
Interests: Social Psychology; Personality
Jerome Singer
Interests: Conscious Experience; Personality
Edward Zigler
Interests: Child Development and Social Policy
The following universities have one faculty that we are aware of who have in interest in Positive Psychology.
Brandeis University
Derek Isaacowitz
Email address: isaacowitz@brandeis.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/psych/faculty/isaacowitz.html
Interests: Life-Span Development; Emotion in Adulthood and Old Age.
Brown University
Bertram Malle
Email address: Bertram_Malle@brown.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psych.brown.edu/people/bertrammalle.html
Interests: Human Behavior; Social Interaction; Folk Theory of Mind
California State University, Northridge
Gregory C. Jackson
Email address: gregory.jackson@csun.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.csun.edu/edpsy/career.html
Interests: Positive psychology in career counseling and development
Chapman University
Shari Young Kuchenbecker
Email address: kuchenbe@chapman.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.chapman.edu/SCS/HLS/faculty/kuchenbecker.asp
Interests: Empathy, development and prosocial behaviors; women's non-linear paths including community service, life satisfaction & longevity; proactive formative evaluation to increase volunteer youth sport coach quality behaviors
Charles Sturt University
Darryl Maybery
Email address: dmaybery@csu.edu.au
Faculty webpage: http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/humss/staff/darryl_maybery.htm
Interests: Health Psychology; Mental Health; Well-Being
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
Columbia University
Sheena Iyengar
Email address: ss957@columbia.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/fac-bios/IyengarS/faculty.html
Interests: Choice; Decisions
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
Florida State University
Roy Baumeister
Email address: baumeister@psy.fsu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/index.html
Interests: Self; Emotion; Social Rejection/Belongingness; Self-esteem; Quest for Meaning
Frank Fincham
Email address: ffincham@fsu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.fincham.info/
Interests:
Furman University
Charles Brewer
Email address: charles.brewer@furman.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www2.furman.edu/academics/psychology/FacultyandStaff/Brewer/Pages/default.aspx
Interests: Learning; Memory; History of Psychology
George Washington University
Steve Wolin
Email address: steven@projectresilience.com
Faculty webpage: http://projectresilience.com/index.htm
Interests: Resiliency
Hendrix College
Patricia Bruininks
Email address: bruininks@hendrix.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.hendrix.edu/psychology/psychology.aspx?id=3701
Interests: Difference Between Hope and Optimism; Trait of Hopelessness; Hope and Decision-Making; Measuring Emotional Experience
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
Jefferson College of Health Sciences
Bob Reese
Email address: rcreese@jchs.edu
Faculty webpage:
Interests: Performance; Health Psychology
Johns Hopkins
Stephen Drigotas
Email address: drigotas@jhu.edu
Faculty webpage:
Interests: Close Relationships
Kent State
Manfred Van Dulmen
Email address: mvandul@kent.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.kent.edu/CAS/Psychology/people/~mvandul/
Interests: Interpersonal Relationships, Behavior
Lehigh University
Debbie Laible
Email address: del205@lehigh.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.lehigh.edu/~inpsy/laible.htm
Interests: Parent-Child Discourse, Attachment
McGill University
John Abela
Email address: john.abela@mcgill.ca
Faculty webpage: http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/faculty/abela.html
Interests: Depression; Resiliency
Michigan State University
Richard Lucas
Email address: lucasri@msu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.msu.edu/user/lucasri/
Interests: Personality and Emotion; Function of pleasant affect; Causes of life satisfaction
Monash University (Melbourne, Australia)
Dianne Vella-Brodrick
Email address: Dianne.Vella-Brodrick@monash.edu
Faculty webpage: http://spppm-cf.med.monash.edu.au/staffpages/page.cfm?un=diannev
Interests: Positive psychology interventions, orientations to happiness (pleasure, engagement and meaning), workplace well-being.
Nanyang Technological University
Patrick Chan
Interests: Resilience, Positive Emotions, Enneagram Profiling, Money Habitude
New School for Social Research
Joan Miller
Email address: millerj@newschool.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty.aspx?id=16176
Interests: Motivation; Moral Judgment; Close Relationships; Theory of Mind; Attachment
New York University
Amy Wrzesniewski
Email address: awrzesni@stern.nyu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~awrzesni/
Interests: Making Meaning in the Workplace; Organizational Psychology
Norfolk State University
Delanyard L. Robinson
Email address: dlrobinson@nsu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://sola.nsu.edu/psychology/colson_bio.html
Interests: Teaching Positive Psychology; PP Interventions; Nurturing Character Strengths; Optimism; Gratitude
North Dakota State University
Michael Robinson
Email address: michael.d.robinson@ndsu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psych.ndsu.nodak.edu/robinson/
Interests: Personality; Self-Regulation; Automaticity; Subjective Well-Being; Aggression
Northwestern University
Dan McAdams
Email address: dmca@northwestern.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psych.northwestern.edu/~mcadams/
Interests: Personality; Development; Identity; Intimacy; Biography; Generativity
Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
Aaron Jarden
Email address: aaron.jarden@openpolytechnic.ac.nz
Faculty webpage: http://www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz/
Interests: values, savouring, grit, hope, strengths
Ottawa University, Phoenix
Dean Colston
Email address: dean.colston@ottawa.edu
Faculty webpage:
Interests: Emotional intelligence and academic achievement; affective and social neuroscience
Princeton University
Daniel Kahneman
Email address: kahneman@Princeton.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.princeton.edu/~kahneman/
Interests: Decision Making; Judgment
Ringling College of Art and Design
Poppy Spencer, M.S., ATR
Faculty webpage: (currently under construction)
Interests: Creative strengths; Designing positive emotions
Rollins College
Marie C. Shafe
Email address: MCShafe@aol.com
Faculty webpage:
Interests: Positive psychology in counseling
Suffolk University
Sukanya Ray, PhD
Faculty Webpage:
Interests: Immigrant Health, Resilience and Positive Psychology
Syracuse University
Nancy Cantor
Email address: ncantor@syr.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.syr.edu/chancellor/
Interests: N/A
United States Military Academy
Michael Matthews
Email address: lm6270@usma.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.dean.usma.edu/bsl/FacultyPages/Matthews.html
Interests: Situational awareness/understanding of the Infantry battlefield
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Gitendra Uswatte
Email address: guswatte@uab.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psy.uab.edu/uswatte.htm
Interests: Character Strengths
University of Colorado at Boulder
Leaf Van Boven
Email address: vanboven@colorado.edu
Faculty webpage: http://psych.colorado.edu/~vanboven/VanBoven/Home.html
Interests: Judgment; Emotion; Decision; Intuition
University of Connecticut
Joel Kupperman
Email address: Joel.Kupperman@uconn.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.philosophy.uconn.edu/department/kupperman/vjjk.htm
Interests: Philosophy, The Good Life, Ethics
University College Cork (Ireland)
Zelda Di Blasi
Email address: z.diblasi@ucc.ie
Faculty webpage: http://www.ucc.ie/en/ppi/Members/ResearchStaff/ZeldaDiBlasi/
Interests: Positive Emotion; Happiness/Well-being; Meditation/Yoga; Gratitude; Placebo Effect
University of Florida
Monika Ardelt
Email address: ardelt@soc.ufl.edu
Faculty webpage: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/ardelt/
Interests: Human Development; Aging; Wisdom, Purpose in Life, Religiosity, Dying Well
University of Kentucky
Suzanne Segerstrom
Email address: scsege0@uky.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.uky.edu/AS/Psychology/faculty/segerstr.html
Interests: Personality; Cognition; Emotion; Physiological Effect of Stressors
University of Madrid
Robert F. Krueger
Email address: krueg038@umn.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.psych.umn.edu/people/faculty/krueger.htm
Interests: Personality disorders; Behavior Genetics; Mental Disorders; Quantitative Methods
University of Ottawa
Veronika Huta
interests: Eudaimonia, Well-being, Elevation, Meaning, Spirituality, Drawbacks of materialism
University of Victoria
Frederick Grouzet
Interests: Personal goals, well-being, life transition, meaning, cross-cultural psychology
University of Western Ontario
Rod Martin
Interests: Psychology of Humor; Psychosocial stress and Health; Personality; Coping Strategies
Vassar College
Michele M. Tugade
Email address: mitugade@vassar.edu
Faculty wepage: http://faculty.vassar.edu/mitugade/
Interests: Positive emotions, emotion regulation, resilience, working memory
Wake Forest University
Batja Mesquita
Email address: mesquita@wfu.edu
Faculty webpage: http://www.wfu.edu/psychology/faculty/mesquita.html
Interests: Cultural Psychology; Emotional Psychology
Zurich University
Willibald Ruch
Email address: w.ruch@psychologie.unizh.ch
Faculty webpage: http://www.research-projects.unizh.ch/a872.htm
Interests: Positive Emotions; Humor; Character Strengths and Virtues