Peter Salovey, Ph.D.

Provost, Yale University                                                          Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology
Professor of Management
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
Deputy Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS

Email:
peter.salovey@yale.edu

 

 

URL:
Office of the Provost

Psychology Department
HEB Lab

The program of research conducted in Peter Salovey's laboratory concerns two general issues in social/personality psychology: (a) the psychological significance and function of human moods and emotions and (b) the application of principles derived from research in social/personality psychology to the promotion of health protective behaviors. His research program on mood and emotion is focused on the psychological consequences of feeling states. The goal is to specify the processes by which affect influences thought and action. A conceptual model called Emotional Intelligence provides the framework that unifies our work. This perspective emphasizes the strategies that people learn in order to appraise and express their emotions accurately, understand the feelings of other people, regulate their emotions and the feelings of other people, and use emotion to motivate, plan, and achieve in life. Most of our research attention in the health promotion area concerns the effectiveness of interventions designed to promote prevention and early detections behaviors for cancer and HIV/AIDS. Much of our research investigates the role of framing in developing maximally persuasive health-relevant messages.

Select Publications

Brackett, M.A., Rivers, S.E., Shiffman, S., Lerner, N., & Salovey, P. (2006). Relating emotional abilities to social functioning: A comparison of self-report and performance measures of emotional intelligence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 780-795.

Mayer, J.D., Salovey, P., Caruso, D.R., & Sitarenios, G. (2003). Measuring emotional intelligence with the MSCEIT V2.0. Emotion, 3, 97-105.

Salovey, P., & Grewal, D. (2005). The science of emotional intelligence. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 281-285.

Salovey, P., & Williams-Piehota, P. (2004). Field experiments in social psychology: Message framing and the promotion of health protective behaviors. American Behavioral Scientist, 47, 488-505.

Williams-Piehota, P., Pizarro, J., Schneider, T.R., Mowad, L., & Salovey, P. (2005). Matching health messages to monitor-blunter coping styles to motivate screening mammography. Health Psychology, 24, 58-67.