The Social Psychology of Living Well – eBook

About The Author

Joseph P. Forgas

Roy F. Baumeister

Dr. Roy F. Baumeister, a professor of psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia, has taught introductory social psychology to thousands of graduate and undergraduate students. He got his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1978. His research and teaching experience includes appointments at the Florida State University, University of California at Berkeley, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Virginia, the Max Planck Institute in Munich (Germany), the University of Texas at Austin, the VU University, Amsterdam (the Netherlands), the University of Bamberg (Germany), the University of Melbourne (Australia), King Abdulaziz University (Saudi Arabia), and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. An active researcher whose work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Templeton Foundation, Roy has conducted research on the self (including self-control and self-esteem), the need to belong, aggression, sexuality, and how people find meaning in life.

According to Google Scholar, Dr. Roy Baumeister's works have been cited over 175,000 times in scientific literature. In 2013, he received the William James Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Association for Psychological Science in all of psychology. In his spare time, he likes to play jazz and ski.