Peter Salovey, Ph.D.
After completing his undergraduate education at Stanford University, Peter Salovey received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Yale University in 1986. He now serves as Professor of Psychology and of Epidemiology and Public Health, Director of Graduate Studies in Psychology, and contributes primarily to the social/personality training program at Yale University. He is also the Director of the Department of Psychology’s Health, Emotion, and Behavior (HEB) Laboratory and is co-director of the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA).
The program of research conducted in Professor Salovey’ s laboratory concerns two general issues: (a) the psychological significance and function of human moods and emotions and (b) the application of principles derived from research in social/personality psychology to the promotion of health protective behaviors. |
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His recent work on emotion has focused on the ways in which feelings facilitate adaptive cognitive and behavioral functioning; with John D. Mayer, he has developed a broad framework called Emotional Intelligence that organizes this work. The goal of much of his recent health behavior research is to investigate the role of message framing (in terms of benefits versus risks) in developing maximally persuasive educational and public health messages promoting prevention and early detection behaviors primarily for breast and skin cancer and HIV/AIDS.
Professor Salovey has published over 125 articles in the scientific literature including the recent chapter on health behavior in the Handbook of Social Psychology. He is the co-author with V. J. D’Andrea of Peer Counseling and he edited Reasoning, Inference, and Judgment in Clinical Psychology with Dennis C. Turk. More recent books include: The Psychology of Jealousy and Envy, The Remembered Self: Emotions and Memory in Personality (with Jefferson A. Singer), and Emotional Development and Emotional Intelligence: Educational Implications (with David Sluyter). Professor Salovey edits the Guilford Press series on Emotions and Social Behavior. He just competed a six-year term as Associate Editor of Psychological Bulletin and has been named the first editor of the Review of General Psychology.
Professor Salovey is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Young Investigator Award, and he has served on the NSF Social Psychology Advisory Panel. His research has been funded by the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Center for Health Statistics, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In Yale College, more than 4,000 undergraduates have enrolled in his Introduction to Psychology course during the past decade, and the 1992 version of Psychology and Law was the largest course in Yale College history. A videotape version of his course, The Intelligent Emotions, is available through the Association of Yale Alumni’s Great Teachers Series.
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