Peter Salovey is an American social psychologist and current president of Yale University.
16 Facts About Peter Salovey
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Peter Salovey previously served as Yale's provost, dean of Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and dean of Yale College.
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Peter Salovey is the oldest child of Elaine Salovey, who was a registered nurse, and Ronald Salovey, who was a physical chemist and Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Southern California.
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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.
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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.
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Peter Salovey is currently the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology.
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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.
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Peter Salovey served as President of the Society for General Psychology and Treasurer of the International Society for Research on Emotion.
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Peter Salovey was the founding editor of the Review of General Psychology and an associate editor of Emotion and Psychological Bulletin.
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Speculation that Peter Salovey was being considered for the Yale presidency began nearly four years before President Rick Levin's August 2012 retirement announcement.
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Peter Salovey is the first Yale president since 1986 to live in the President's House, the formal residence of the university president.
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In recognition of his research contributions, Peter Salovey has received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, the National Cancer Institute CIS Partner in Research Award, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Excellence Award.
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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.
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Peter Salovey served as a trustee of the International Bluegrass Music Museum and on the advisory board of the Connecticut Folk Festival.
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Peter Salovey now is a trustee of the IBMA Foundation for bluegrass music.
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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.