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Peter Salovey, Ph.D.
blue arrow Provost, Yale University
blue arrow Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology, Psychology
blue arrow Professor, Epidemiology & Public Health

Contact:
blue arrow peter.salovey@yale.edu
blue arrow Ph: (203) 434-444
 Peter Salovey


Brief Bio:
After completing his undergraduate education at Stanford University, Peter Salovey received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Yale University in 1986. He now serves as the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology and Professor of Management and of Epidemiology and Public Health, at Yale. In January 2003, Professor Salovey was appointed as Yale's 18th Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and on July 1, 2004, he became Dean of Yale College. Professor Salovey is also the Director of the Department of Psychology's Health, Emotion, and Behavior (HEB) Laboratory.

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. His recent work on emotion has focused on the ways in which feelings facilitate adaptive cognitive and behavioral functioning; with John D. Mayer, he has developed a broad framework called Emotional Intelligence that organizes this work. The goal of much of his recent health behavior research is to investigate the role of the framing and psychological tailoring of messages in developing maximally persuasive educational and public health communication interventions promoting prevention and early detection behaviors relevant to cancer and HIV/AIDS. Much of this research is carried out in housing developments, community health clinics, and workplaces in the New Haven community.

Professor Salovey has published over 350 articles in the scientific literature. He is the co-author with V. J. D'Andrea of Peer Counseling (1983) and Peer Counseling: Skills, Ethics, and Perspectives (1996), and he edited Reasoning, Inference, and Judgment in Clinical Psychology (1988) with Dennis C. Turk. Some of his more recent books include: The Psychology of Jealousy and Envy (1991), The Remembered Self: Emotions and Memory in Personality (1993; with Jefferson A. Singer), Psychology (1993; with Zick Rubin and Letitia Anne Peplau), Emotional Development and Emotional Intelligence: Educational Implications (1997; with David Sluyter), At Play in the Fields of Consciousness (1999; with Jefferson A. Singer), The Wisdom in Feeling (2002; with Lisa Feldman Barrett), Social Psychology of Health: Key Readings in Social Psychology (2003; with Alexander Rothman), The Emotionally Intelligent Manager (2004; with David Caruso), and Emotional Intelligence: Key Readings on the Mayer-Salovey Model (2004; with Brackett and Mayer). Professor Salovey edits the Guilford Press series on Emotions and Social Behavior. He competed a six-year term as Associate Editor of Psychological Bulletin and was the first Editor of the Review of General Psychology; he served as Associate Editor of Emotion as well.

Professor Salovey is a recipient of the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award, and he has served on the NSF Social Psychology Advisory Panel. His research has been funded by the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Center for Health Statistics, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Ethel F. Donaghue Foundation. He is a member of the National Advisory Mental Health Council of NIMH.


CIRA Affiliated Projects:
Message Framing and HIV Prevention/Detection in Low Income Women
Funder:
National Institute of Mental Health
Status: Completed
Region:
U.S. - Outside of CT.
Training in HIV Prevention & Care Research in South Africa-ICOHRTA
Funder:
Fogarty International Center/National Institute on Drug Abuse
Status: Completed
Region:
Africa - South Africa
Understanding HIV-Relevant Stigma in India
Funder:
National Institute of Mental Health
Status: Completed
Region:
India

Selected Publications:
In Press

Salovey, P., Williams-Piehota, P., Mowad, L., Moret, M.E., andersen, J.  (In Press). Bridging the digital divide by increasing computer and health literacy: Community technology centers for Head-Start parents and families. Journal of Health Communication, (), .

Rothman, A.J., Wlacshin, J.T., Bartels, R.D., Latimer, A., Salovey, P.  (In Press). How persons and situations regulate message framing effects: The study of health behavior. in Andrew Elliott, Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation (pp.). Mahway, NJ: Psychology Press.

2009

Cadmus, L.A., Salovey, P., Yu, H., Chung, G., Kasl, S., Irwin, M.L.  (2009). Exercise and quality of life during and after treatments for breast cancer: Results of two randomized controlled trials. Psycho-Oncology, 18(4), 343-52.

2008

Latimer, A.E., Rivers, S.E., Rench, T.A., Katulak, N.A., Hicks, A., Hodrowski, J.K., Higgins, E.T., Salovey, P.  (2008). A field experiment testing the utility of regulatory fit messages for promoting physical activity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44(3), 826-832.

Toll, B.A., Leary, V., Wu, R., Salovey, P., Meandzija, B., O'Malley, S.  (2008). A Preliminary Investigation of naltrexone augmentation of bupropion to stop smoking with less weight gain. Addictive Behaviors, 33(1), 173-179.

Latimer, A.E., Williams-Piehota, P., Cox, A., Katulak, N.A., Mowad, L., Salovery, P.  (2008). Encouraging Cancer patients to talk to their physicians about clinical trials: Considering patients' information needs.

Toll, B.A., Salovey, P., O'Malley, s.S., Mazure, C., Latimer, A., McKee, S.A.  (2008). Massage framing for smoking cessation: The interaction of risk perceptions and gender. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 10(1), 185-200.

Latimer, A.E., Williams-Piehota, P., Katulak, N.A., Cox, A., Mowad, L.Z., Higgins, E.T., Salovey, P.  (2008). Promoting fruit and vegetable intake through messages tailored to individual differences in regulatory focus. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 35(5), 363-369.

Latimer, A.E., Rench, T.A., Rivers, S.E., Katulak, N.A., Materese, S.Add., Cadmus, L., Hicks, A., Hodorowski, J.K., Salovey, P.  (2008). Promoting participation in physical activity using framed messages: An application of prospect theory. British Journal of Health Psychology, 13(4), 659-81.

Schmid, K.L., Rivers, S.E., Latimer, A.E., Salovey, P.  (2008). Targeting or Tailoring?. Marketing Health Services, (), 32-37.

2007

Toll, B.A., O'Malley, s.S., Katulak, N.A., Wu, R., Dubin, J.A., George, T.P., Latimer, A., Menadzija. B., George, J.P., Jatlow, P., Cooney, J.L., Salovey, p.  (2007). Comparing gain-and loss- framed messages for smoking cessation with sustained-release bupropion: A randomized control trial. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 21(4), 534-544.

Toll, B.A., O'Malley, S.S., McKee, S.A., Salovey, P., Krishnan-Sarin, S.  (2007). Confirmatory factor analysis of the Minnesota Nicotine Withdrawal Scale (MNWS). Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 21(2), 216-225.

Brownell, K.D., Salovey, P.  (2007). Health Psychology: Where, psychological, biological, and social factors intersect. in R.J. Steinberg, Career paths in psychology: Where your degree can take you (pp.302-327). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Latimer, A.E., Salovey, P., Rothman, A.J.  (2007). The effectiveness of gain-framed messages for encouraging disease prevention behavior: Is all hope lost?. Journal of Health Communication, 12(7), 645-649.

Kreps, G.L., Gustafson, D., Salovey, P., Perocchia, R.S., Wilbright, W., Bright, M.A., Muha, C.  (2007). The NCI digital divide projects: Implications for cancer education. Journal of Cancer Education, 22(S1), S56-60.

Rothman, A.J., Salovey, P.  (2007). The reciprocal relation between principles and practice: Social psychology and health behavior. in A.W. Kruglanski & E.T. Higgins, Social Psychology: Handbook of Basic Principles (pp.826-849). New York: Guilford Press.

2006

Williams-Piehota, P., Pizarro, J., Navarro, S., Mowad, L., and Salovey, P.  (2006). Need for Cognition and Message Complexity in Motivating Fruit and Vegetable Intake Among Callers to the Cancer Information Service. Health Communication, 19(1), 75-84.

Williams-Piehota, P., Latimer, A., Katulak, N., Cox, a. Silvera, S.A,N., Mowad, L., Salovey, P.  (2006). Tailoring messages to individual differences in monitoring-blunting styles to increase fruit and vegetable intake. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 19(1), 75-84.

2005

Salovey, P.  (2005). Promoting Prevention and Detection: Psychologically Tailoring and Framing Messages About Health. in Bibace, R. et al, Science and medicine in dialogue: Thinking through particulars and universals (pp.). Westport: Greenwood Publishing.

2004

Salovey, P. and Williams-Piehota, P.  (2004). Field Experiments in Social Psychology: Message Framing and the Promotion of Health Protective Behaviors. American Behavioral Scientist, 47(5), 488-505.

Salovey, P. and Steward, W.T.  (2004). Methodological Challenges and Scientific Rewards for Social Psychologists Conducting Health Behavior Research. in Sansone, C., Morf, C.C. and Pater, A.T., The Sage handbook of methods in social psychology (pp.443-456). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

2003

Salovey, P. and Brownell, K.D.  (2003). Coming to Medicine Through Health Psychology. in Donaldson, R.M., Lundgren, K.S. and Spiro, H.M., The Yale guide to careers in medicine and the health professions (pp.359-363). New Haven: Yale University Press.

Salovey, P. and Wegener, D.T.  (2003). Communicating About Health: Message Framing, Persuasion, and Health Behavior. in Suls, J. and Wallston, K.A., Social psychological foundations of health and illness (pp.). Malden: Blackwell Publishing.

Rothman, A.J., Kelly, K.M., Hertel, A.W. and Salovey, P.  (2003). Message Framing and Illness Representations: Implications for Interventions to Promote and Sustain Healthy Behavior. in Cameron, L.D. and Leventhal, H., The self-regulation of health and illness behavior (pp.). Reading, England: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.

Apanovitch, A.M., McCarthy, D. and Salovey, P.  (2003). Using Message Framing to Motivate HIV Testing among Low-Income, Ethnic Minority Women. Health Psychology, 22(1), 60-7.

Rothman, A.J., Stark, E.N. and Salovey, P.  (2003). Using Message Framing to Promote Health Behavior: A Guide to Best Practices. in Trafton, J.A. and Gordon, W.P., Best Practices in the Behavioral Management of Chronic Disease (pp.). Los Altos: .

2002

Devos-Comby, L. and Salovey, P.  (2002). Applying Persuasion Strategies to Alter HIV-Relevant Thoughts and Behavior. Review of General Psychology, 6(3), 287-304.

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

Muehrer, P.R., Salovey, P., Afifi, A.A., Coyne, J.C., Kring, A.M., Merson, M.H., Prohaska, T.R. and Rozensky, R.H.  (2002). Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration Between Basic Behavioral Scientists and Public Health Scientists in Research on Mental Disorders. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 9(4), 253-265.

2000

Salovey, P., Rothman, A.J., Detweiler, J.B. and Steward, W.T.  (2000). Emotional states and physical health. American Psychologist, 55(1), 110-21.

1999

Rothman, A.J., Martino, S.C., Bedell, B., Detweiler, J. and Salovey, P.  (1999). The Systematic Influence of Gain- and Loss-Framed Messages on Interest in and Use of Different Types of Health Behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25(11), 1355-1369.

1997

Rothman, A.J. and Salovey, P.  (1997). Shaping Perceptions to Motivate Healthy Behavior: The Role of Message Framing. Psychological Bulletin, 121(1), 3-19.

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