About the speaker
Prof Roy Baumeister
President-Elect
International Positive Psychology Association
Roy F. Baumeister is a social and personality psychologist. He received his Ph.D. in experimental social psychology from Princeton in 1978 and did a postdoctoral fellowship in sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. He spent over two decades at Case Western Reserve University. He has also worked at Florida State University, the University of Texas, the University of Virginia, the Max-PlanckInstitute, the VU Free University of Amsterdam, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the Russell Sage Foundation, the University of Bamberg (Germany), and Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Baumeister’s research spans multiple topics, including self and identity, self-regulation, interpersonal rejection and the need to belong, sexuality and gender, aggression, self-esteem, meaning, and self presentation. He has received research grants from the National Institutes of Health and from the Templeton Foundation. He has over 700 publications, and his 42 books include Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty, The Cultural Animal, Meanings of Life, and the New York Times bestseller Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength. Other scientists have cited his work over 230,000 times, making him among the handful of most influential researchers in the world. He has received several major awards, including the William James Fellow award (their highest honor) from the Association for Psychological Science, and the Jack Block Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
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