Dr Kennon Sheldon is a professor of
Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri, USA. He received his B.S.
in psychology from Duke University in 1981 and his Ph.D. in social/personality
psychology from the University of California, Davis in 1992. He is known for
his research on well-being, motivation, and goals. His prominent
research questions include “Can happiness go up, and then stay up?”, “Can
people be helped to pick life-goals that better express their developmental
potentials?” and “how can the concept of personal agency be reconciled with the
concept of a deterministic universe?”
He is the prolific author of more than 200
academic articles and book chapters. He is also the author of Optimal Human
Being: An Integrated Multi-level Perspective, and Self-determination Theory in
the Clinic: Motivating physical and mental health, and he has written and edited
several other academic books such as Stability of Happiness: Theories and
Evidence on Whether Happiness can Change. He has been the recipient of several
prestigious prizes and awards in psychology, and was named one of the 20 most
cited social psychologists in 2010.
He has been interested in spiritual enlightenment
since 1981. Then, he read various religious, meditative, and transpersonal
theories and practices for transforming consciousness and achieving personal
fulfillment. The quest for reaching the state of enlightenment motivated his
research and academic pursuit. Through his research, he wishes to add
substantially to the body of knowledge to the field of psychology, as well as
to bring the science of happiness to the general public. In his leisure time,
he enjoys travelling with his wife Melanie Sheldon and playing in his rock band
named “The Hellbenders”, which makes him happy.
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