Positive Psychology Summer Institute 2001 Faculty & Scholars
Senior Faculty List and Staff
Lisa G. Aspinwall, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Utah
Department of Psychology
lisa.aspinwall@psych.utah.edu
Ilona Boniwell
Graduate Student
The Open University, UK
ilonasmg@cwcom.net
Mike Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D.
The Peter Drucker School of Management
Professor of Psychology
miska@cgu.edu
Katherine Dahlsgaard
Graduate Student
University of Pennsylvania
dahlsgaa@psych.upenn.edu
Ed Diener, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
University of Illinois
ediener@s.psych.uiuc.edu
www.psych.uiuc.edu/~ediener
Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of California
raemmons@ucdavis.edu
Barbara L. Fredrickson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Michigan
blf@umich.edu
Derek Freres (Staff)
Project Coordinator
Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
dfreres@psych.upenn.edu
Patrick Jamieson (Staff)
University of Pennsylvania
patrick@asc.upenn.edu
Dacher Keltner, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Psychology
keltner@socrates.berkeley.edu
Samantha Leaf (Staff)
Graduate Student
University of Utah
Department of Psychology
sleaf13@aol.com
Christopher Peterson, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
University of Michigan
chrispet@umich.edu
Harry Reis, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
University of Rochester
reis@scp.rochester.edu
reis@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu
Peter Schulman (Staff)
Research Director
Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
schulman@psych.upenn.edu
Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
seligman@psych.upenn.edu
George Vaillant, MD
Department of Psychiatry
Brigham & Women's Hospital
gvaillant@partners.org
Scholar List
Assistant Professors
Julie Exline
Case Western Reserve University
jaj20@po.cwru.edu
Title: Letters, Logic, and Letting Loose: Can Writing about Past Hurts Facilitate Forgiveness?
Shelly Gable
University of California, Los Angeles
gable@psych.ucla.edu
Title: Flourishing Relationships: Measuring the Presence of Positives and the Absence of Negatives.
Melanie Green
University of Pennsylvania
mcgreen@psych.upenn.edu
Title: The restorative function of transportation into narrative worlds: Stories and self-regulation
Derek Isaacowitz
Brandeis University
derekiz@psych.upenn.edu
Title: Positive Psychology Wellsprings in Old Age: The Men of the Grant Study
Eric Lindsey
Texas Tech University
elindsey@hs.ttu.edu
Title: Social Determinants of Young Children's Optimism
Judy Moskowitz
University of California, San Francisco
moskj@ocim.ucsf.edu
Title: The Experience of Positive Emotion in Parents of Children with Chronic Illness
Post Docs
Jack Bauer
Northwestern University
jackbauer@nwu.edu
Title: Growth and well-being in stories of voluntary life transitions
Julienne Bower
University of California, Los Angeles
jbower@ucla.edu
Title: The influence of finding meaning on physiological and psychological responses to challenge.
Elissa Epel
University of California, San Francisco
elissa@itsa.ucsf.edu
Title: Psychological resilience and indices of positive health among maternal caregivers.
Leslie Kirby
University of Alabama, Birmingham
lkirby@uab.edu
Title: Keep on Truckin’:Optimism & Task Engagement.
Chantal Levesque
Southwest Missouri State University
chl131f@smsu.edu
Title: Autonomous motivation as an implicit disposition: Relation to well-being, affectivity, and self-regulation.
Jack Nitschke
University of Wisconsin-Madison
jnitschke@facstaff.wisc.edu
Title: Neural Circuitry of Positive Emotion: A fMRI Study of Mothers Viewing Pictures of Their Infants
Pre Docs
Sara Algoe
University of Virginia
salgoe@virginia.edu
Title: Appreciating Gratitude: Distinguishing the positive experience of thankfulness
Jeff Burgdorf
University of Michigan
jburgdor@umich.edu
Title: The neurobiology of positive emotions: evidence from animal models.
Stephane Cote
University of Toronto
scote@rotman.utoronto.ca
stephanc@umich.edu
Title: Individual Differences in Affective Experiences Associated with Interpersonal Behavior
David Gard
University of California, Berkeley
dgard@socrates.berkeley.edu
Title: Understanding the experience of pleasure: appetitive and consummatory components
Debra Leiberman
University of California, Santa Barbara
lieberma@psych.ucsb.edu
Title: Psychological mechanisms mediating kin directed altruism
Paulo Lopes
Yale University
Paulo.Lopes@yale.edu
Title: Assessing the Predictive Validity of Emotional Intelligence
Tracy McLaughlin-Volpe
SUNY, Stonybrook
tmclaugh@ccvm.sunysb.edu
trm3@lehigh.edu
Title: The hidden rewards of close cross-group friendships: Self-expansion across group membership.
Jeanne Nakamura
Claremont University
jeanne.nakamura@cgu.edu
Ginger Pennington
Northwestern University
g-pennington@northwestern.edu
Title: Self-Congruencies and the Positive Consequences of Self-State Representations
Moria Smoski
Vanderbilt University
moria.smoski@vanderbilt.edu
Title: Acoustics of Laughter During the Course of Friendship Development.
Ty Tashiro
University of Minnesota
tash0002@tc.umn.edu
Title: Personal Growth Following Relationship Dissolution.
Michele Tugade
University of Michigan
mtugade@umich.edu
Title: Positive Emotions Foster Coping Flexibility.