21 Facts About Peter Salovey

Peter Salovey is an American social psychologist and former academic administrator.

Peter Salovey served as the 23rd president of Yale University from 2013 to 2024.

Peter Salovey previously served as provost of Yale University from 2008 to 2013, dean of Yale College from 2004 to 2008, and dean of Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 2003 to 2004.

Peter Salovey was born in 1958 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to a Jewish family.

Peter Salovey is the oldest child of Elaine Salovey, who was a registered nurse, and Ronald Salovey, who was a polymer chemist and professor of chemical engineering and materials science at the University of Southern California.

Peter Salovey spent his early years in New Providence, New Jersey, and attended high school at Williamsville North High School in a suburb of Buffalo, New York, before moving to suburban Los Angeles in 1975, when his father was appointed a professor at the University of Southern California.

Peter Salovey attended Stanford University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in psychology and a Master of Arts in sociology with departmental honors and university distinction.

Peter Salovey completed a dissertation entitled "The Effects of Mood and Focus of Attention on Self-Relevant Thoughts and Helping Intention" and an internship at the West Haven Veterans Administration Medical Center.

Peter Salovey graduated from Yale University with a Doctor of Philosophy in 1986.

Peter Salovey was appointed full professor in 1995 and now has secondary faculty appointments in Yale's School of Management, School of Public Health, the Department of Sociology, and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies.

Peter Salovey is currently a Sterling Professor of Psychology having previously served as the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology.

Outside Yale, Peter Salovey has served on the National Science Foundation's Social Psychology Advisory Panel, the National Institute of Mental Health Behavioral Science Working Group, and the NIMH National Advisory Mental Health Council.

Peter Salovey served as President of the Society for General Psychology and Treasurer of the International Society for Research on Emotion.

Peter Salovey was the founding editor of the Review of General Psychology and an associate editor of Emotion and Psychological Bulletin.

Speculation that Peter Salovey was being considered for the Yale presidency began nearly four years before President Rick Levin's August 2012 retirement announcement.

Peter Salovey is the first Yale president since 1986 to live in the President's House, the formal residence of the university president.

Peter Salovey has received two awards for excellence in teaching at Yale, the William Clyde DeVane Medal and the Lex Hixon '63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences.

Peter Salovey received honorary degrees from the University of Pretoria, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Harvard University, McGill University, National Tsing Hua University, University of Haifa, and Vytautas Magnus University, as well as being awarded membership in the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Peter Salovey served as a trustee of the International Bluegrass Music Museum and on the advisory board of the Connecticut Folk Festival.

Peter Salovey now is a trustee of the International Bluegrass Music Association Foundation for bluegrass music.

Peter Salovey is married to Marta Elisa Moret, a 1984 graduate of the Yale School of Public Health, former Deputy Commissioner for the Connecticut Department of Social Services, and the president of Urban Policy Strategies, LLC She is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Public Health at Southern Connecticut State University.