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Yale University Provost & Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology

After completing his undergraduate education at Stanford University, Peter Salovey received his PhD in clinical psychology from Yale University in 1986 and was appointed to the faculty in the same year. He is now the University Provost after having served as dean of Yale College, and, prior to that, as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and as chairman of the department of psychology. He is the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology and professor of Epidemiology and Public Health.

Professor Salovey is also the director of the Department of Psychology's Health, Emotion, and Behavior (HEB) Laboratory and was previously the deputy 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, especially the importance of emotional intelligence in the workplace, school, and social relations and (b) the application of social psychological principles to motivating health protective behaviors. Professor Salovey has published more than 350 articles in the scientific literature and is a recipient of the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award, and has served on the NSF Social Psychology Advisory Panel as well as the NIMH National Mental Health Advisory Council.

Achievements and Awards
Carson Scholars Fund Leadership Award, 2011 
DEd, doctorate honoris causa, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2009 
Exceptional Lifetime Achievement Award, International Conference on Advances in Management, 2009  
Elected member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, 2009  
American Psychological Association, G. Stanley Hall Lecturer, 2008 
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Excellence Award, 2005  
Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, Graduate School Alumni Association, Yale University, 2004
The Lex Hixon ‘63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences, 2002 

Editorships
Editor, Guilford Press series on Emotions and Social Behavior
Associate Editor, Oxford University Press Companion to the Affective Sciences, 2005-2008
Section Editor, Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior, Sage Publications, 2001-2003
Associate Editor, Emotion, 2000-2002
Founding Editor, Review of General Psychology, 1996-2002
Section Editor, Oxford University Press Handbook of Affective Science, 1998-2002 
Associate Editor, APA-Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology, 1996-1999
Associate Editor, Psychological Bulletin, 1991-1996

Selected Books
The Emotionally Intelligent Manager (with D.R. Caruso), Jossey-Bass, 2004.

Emotional Intelligence: Key Readings on the Mayer and Salovey Model (with M.A. Brackett and J.D. Mayer, eds.), Dude Press, 2004

Key Readings in the Social Psychology of Health (with A.J. Rothman, ed.) Psychology Press, 2003

Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT): User’s Manual (with J.D. Mayer and D.R. Caruso), Multi-Health Systems, Inc, 2002

The Wisdom in Feeling: Psychological Processes in Emotional Intelligence (with L. Feldman Barrett, ed.), Guilford Press, 2002
 
At Play in the Fields of Consciousness: Essays in Honor of Jerome L. Singer (with J.A. Singer, ed.), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999

Emotional Development and Emotional Intelligence: Implications for Educators (with D. Sluyter, ed.), Basic Books, 1997. Portuguese edition published as:  Intelligencia Emocional da Crianca, Editora Campus Ltda, 1999. Polish edition published as:  Rozwoj Emocjonalny a Inteligencja Emocjonalna, Rebis Publishing House, 1999

Peer Counseling: Skills, Ethics, and Perspectives (with V.J. D'Andrea, ed.), Science and Behavior Books, 1996

Psychology (with Z. Rubin and L.A. Peplau), Houghton-Mifflin Co., 1993

The Remembered Self: Emotion and Memory in Personality (with J.A. Singer), Free Press, 1993

The Psychology of Jealousy and Envy, ed., Guilford Press, 1991

Reasoning, Inference, and Judgment in Clinical Psychology, (with D.C. Turk, ed.), Free Press, 1988

Peer Counseling: Skills and Perspectives (with V.J. D'Andrea), Science and Behavior Books, 1983

Selected Articles
"Emotional Intelligence: Implications for Personal, Social, Academic, and Workplace Success" (with M.A. Brackett, S.E. Rivers), Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Vol. 5, 88-103, 2011

"Health Behavioral Economics" (with M.V. Kalayoglu), in J. Brown & A. Lewis, eds., Disease Management and Wellness in the Post-reform Era, Atlantic Information Services, Inc., 2011

"Emotion Regulation and the Quality of Social Interaction: Does the Ability to Evaluate Emotional Situations and Identify Effective Responses Matter?" (with P.N. Lopes, J.B. Nezlek, N. Extremera, J. Hertel, P. Fernández-Berrocal, A. Schütz), Journal of Personality, Vol.79, 429-467, 2011

"Emotional Intelligence" (with J.D. Mayer, D.R. Caruso and L. Cherkasskiy), in R.J. Sternberg & S.B. Kaufman, eds., The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence, Cambridge, 2011

"Responding to Partners' Expression of Anger: The Role of Communal Motivation" (with S.H Yoo, M.S. Clark, E.P. Lemay, J.K. Monin), Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 37, 229-241, 2011

"Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Emergence in Small Groups" (with S. Cote, S., P.N. Lopes, and C.T.H. Miners), The Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 21, 496-508, 2010.

"Emotion-regulation Ability, Job Satisfaction, and Burnout among British Secondary-school Teachers" (with M.A. Brackett, R. Palomera, J. Mojsa-Kaja, M.R. Reyes), Psychology in the Schools, Vol. 47, 406-417, 2010

"Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Responses to Hypothetical and Actual Frustrating Stressors" (with S.H. Yoo), Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, Vol. 28, 239-249, 2009

"The Positive Psychology of Emotional Intelligence" (with J.D. Mayer, D.R. Caruso and S.H. Yoo), in S.J. Lopez & C.R. Snyder, eds., The Handbook of Positive Psychology, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2009

"Emotional Intelligence and Investor Behavior" (with J. Ameriks and T. Wranik), Research Foundation of CFA Institute Publications, 1-75, 2009

"Targeting or Tailoring?" (with K.L. Schmid, S.E. Rivers and A.E. Latimer), Marketing Health Services, Vol. 28, 32-37, 2008

"Emotional Intelligence" (with B.T. Detweiler-Bedell, J.B. Detweiler-Bedell, and J.D. Mayer), in M. Lewis, J.M. Haviland-Jones and L. Feldman Barrett, eds., Handbook of Emotions, 3rd edition, Guilford Press, 2008

"What Is Emotional Intelligence and What Does it Predict?" (with J.D. Mayer and D.R. Caruso), in P.C. Kyllonen, R.D. Roberts, & L. Stankov, eds., Extending Intelligence: Enhancement and New Constructs, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Taylor & Francis Group, 2008

"Emotional Intelligence and Leadership: Implications for Leader Development" (with P.N. Lopes), in C.L. Hoyt, G. R. Goethals, & D. R. Forsyth, eds., Leadership at the crossroads: Leadership and Psychology, Praeger, 2008

"Emotional Intelligence: New Ability or Eclectic Traits?" (with J.D. Mayer and D.R. Caruso), American Psychologist, Vol. 63, 503-517, 2008

Education
PhD Yale University, 1986
MA Stanford University, 1980
BA Stanford University, 1980