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Keynote
Speaker
Dean Peter
Salovey |
We are very pleased that Professor Salovey will be joining us to
present a Keynote Speech entitled "Imagining the Future of
Undergraduate Education at Yale."
Peter Salovey, recently appointed Dean of Yale College and current
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale University,
is the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology and was the Chair of the
Department of Psychology from 2000-2003. Dr. Salovey is also
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health. He directs the Health,
Emotion and Behavior Laboratory and is deputy director of the Yale
Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS. He also has
affiliations with the Yale Cancer Center and the Institution for
Social and Policy Studies.
Professor Salovey received an A.B. in Psychology and a co-terminal
M.A. in Sociology from Stanford University in 1980. He holds three
Yale degrees in psychology: an M.S. (1983), M.Phil. (1984), and Ph.D.
(1986). Salovey was President of the Graduate and Professional
Student Senate at Yale in 1983-84. He joined the Yale faculty as an
assistant professor in 1986 and has been a full professor since
1995.
Salovey's research has focused on the psychological significance and
function of human moods and emotions, and the application of social
psychological principles to motivate people to adopt behaviors that
protect their health. His recent work concerns the ways in which
emotions facilitate adaptive cognitive and behavioral functioning.
With John D. Mayer, he developed a broad framework, coined "emotional
intelligence," to describe how people understand, manage and use
their emotions. His recent work on health behavior has included field
experiments evaluating how educational and public health messages can
best be tailored to promote prevention and early detection behaviors
relevant to cancer and HIV/AIDS. Salovey's research has been funded
by a Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) Award from the National
Science Foundation and grants from the National Cancer Institute,
National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Drug
Abuse, American Cancer Society, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and
Ethel F. Donaghue Women's Health Investigator Program. He served a
three-year term on the National Science Foundation's social
psychology study section, and was a member of the NIH behavioral
science working group on translational research in mental health.
Salovey has published about 200 articles and chapters, and he has
authored, coauthored, or edited 11 books including Peer
counseling: Skills and perspectives; Reasoning, inference, and
judgment in clinical psychology; The psychology of jealousy
and envy; Psychology; The remembered self: Emotion and memory
in personality; Peer counseling: Skills, ethics, and
perspectives; Emotional development and emotional
intelligence; At play in the fields of consciousness;
Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT): User's
manual; The wisdom in feeling: Psychological processes in
emotional intelligence; and Key readings in the social
psychology of health. He edits the Guilford Press series
Emotions and Social Behavior, and he has served as Editor or
Associate Editor for three scientific journals: Psychological
Bulletin, Review of General Psychology, and
Emotion.
Salovey, who has taught the Introductory Psychology course since his
first days on the faculty, was awarded the William Clyde DeVane Medal
for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching in Yale College in 2000
and the Lex Hixon Prize for Teaching in the Social Sciences at Yale
in 2002. In his leisure time, Salovey plays stand-up bass with The
Professors of Bluegrass.
For more information about Professor Salovey, please visit the
following web pages:
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