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Sara Algoe
Sara Algoe received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in Social Psychology, and subsequently completed a post-doc in Health Psychology at UCLA. Her research examines positive emotional responses to seeing other people's virtuous, talented, and kind behaviors. Using this understanding, she charts the downstream consequences of these positive behaviors and emotions for the important life outcomes of interpersonal relationships and health. In her research, she takes the view that an individual's momentary emotional reaction is embedded within the broader social and temporal contexts. That is, any given emotional reaction influences an interaction partner as well as the community, and an emotional reaction may set the stage for future thoughts, feelings, and behavior. As such, the goal of her work is to gain understanding of the moments in which people have opportunities to become better versions of themselves, and to demonstrate the impact of taking advantage of such everyday experiences for the self and society. Her current projects involve observation and measurement of positive emotional events in the lab and in everyday interactions between people in ongoing relationships. Click here to read her Psychology Today blog on Susan Boyle and the other-praising emotions: Why I just can't get enough of Susan Boyle. (And I'm not alone.) Click a reference below to read any of her recent papers: |
