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Dean, Yale College & 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 dean of Yale College, having previously served 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 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 and (b) the application of social psychological principles to motivating health protective behaviors. Professor Salovey has published about 200 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.

Achievements and Honors
The Lex Hixon '63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences, 2002
National Cancer Institute CIS Partner in Research Award, 2001
Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology at Yale University, 2001
Mensa Education and Research Foundation Award for Excellence in Research, 2001
American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientist Lecturer, 2001
William Clyde DeVane Medal for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching in Yale College, 2000
Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study Center, Residential Fellowship, 1999
Distinguished Honorary International Affiliate, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Emotions, University of Haifa, Israel, 1999

Editorships
Editor:
Review of General Psychology
Guilford Press series on Emotions and Social Behavior

Books and Chapters
The Emotionally Intelligent Manager (with D.R. Caruso), San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004
Japanese edition published as: EQ Manager (with D.R. Caruso), Tokyo: Toyo Keizai, Inc., 2004
German edition published as: Managen mit Emotionaler Kompetenz (with D.R. Caruso), Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2005

"Promoting Prevention and Detection: Psychologically Tailoring and Framing Messages about Health," in R. Bibace, J.D. Laird, K.L. Noller, and J. Valsiner, eds., Science and Medicine in Dialogue: Thinking Through Particulars and Universals, 17-42, Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2005

Emotional intelligence: Key readings on the Mayer and Salovey model (with M.A. Brackett and J.D. Mayer, Eds.), Port Chester, NY: Dude Press, 2004

"Social Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, Personal Intelligence" (with J.D. Mayer), in C. Peterson & M.E.P. Seligman, eds., Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification, 337-353, Washington: American Psychological Association/Oxford University Press, 2004

"Measuring Emotional Intelligence with the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT)" (with M.A. Brackett), in G. Geher. ed., Measurement of Emotional Intelligence, 181-196, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2004

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

The Wisdom in Feeling: Psychological Processes in Emotional Intelligence (with L. Feldman-Barrett), New York: Guilford Press, 2002

"Message Framing in the Prevention and Early Detection of Illness" (with T.R. Schneider and A.M. Apanovitch), in J.P. Dillard & M. Pfau, eds., The Persuasion Handbook: Theory and Practice, 391-406, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002

Emotional Development and Emotional Intelligence: Implications for Educators (with D. Sluyter), New York: Basic Books, 1997

"Affect and Health-relevant Cognition" (with J.B. Detweiler, W.T. Steward and B.T. Bedell), in J. Forgas, ed., The Handbook of Affect and Social Cognition, 344-368, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001

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

Selected Articles
"Matching Health Messages to Monitor-Blunter Coping Styles to Motivate Screening Mammography" (with P. Williams-Piehota, J. Pizarro, T.R. Schneider and L. Mowad), Health Psychology, Vol. 24, 58-67, 2005

"A Social Comparison Account of Gossip" (with S.R. Wert), Review of General Psychology, Vol. 8, 122-137, 2004

"Field Experiments in Social Psychology: Message Framing and the Promotion of Health Protective Behaviors" (with P. Williams-Piehota), American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 47, 488-505, 2004

"Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Findings, and Implications" (with J.D. Mayer and D.R. Caruso), Psychological Inquiry, Vol.15, 197-215, 2004

"Emotional Intelligence and Social Interaction" (with P.N. Lopes, M.A. Brackett, J.B. Nezlek, A. Schütz, I. Sellin), Personality and Social Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 30, 1018-1034, 2004

"Measuring Emotional Intelligence with the MSCEIT V2.0." (with D. Caruso and G. Sitarenios), Emotion, Vol. 3, 97-105, 2003

"Perceived Emotional Intelligence, Stress Reactivity, and Symptom Reports: Further Explorations Using the Trait Meta-Mood Scale" (with L.R. Stroud, A. Woolery and E.S. Epel), Psychology and Health, Vol. 17, 611-627, 2002

"Religious Systems as 'Emotionally Intelligent' Organizations" (with D.A. Pizarro), Psychological Inquiry, Vol. 13, 220-222, 2002

"The Effects of Message Framing and Ethnic Targeting on Mammography Use Among Low-income Women" (with T.R. Schneider, A.M. Apanovitch, J. Pizarro, D. McCarthy, J. Zullo and A.J. Rothman), Health Psychology, Vol. 20, 256-266, 2001 

"Emotional Intelligence as a Standard Intelligence" (with D. Caruso, J.D. Mayer and G. Sitarenios), Emotion, Vol. 1, 232-242, 2001

"Emotional Intelligence and Giftedness" (with D. Caruso, J.D. Mayer and D.M. Perkins), Roeper Review, 23, 131-137, 2001

"Emotional States and Physical Health" (with A.J. Rothman, J.B. Detweiler, and W. Steward), American Psychologist, Vol. 55, 110-121, 2000 

Education
PhD Yale University, 1986
MA Stanford University, 1983
BA Stanford University, 1980