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| Occupation | Professor of Psychology |
| Awards | Templeton Positive Psychology Prize (2002) |
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| Alma mater | Lewis and Clark College; University of California, Los Angeles; University of Kentucky |
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| Institutions | University of Kentucky |
Suzanne C. Segerstrom is a professor of Psychology and biostatistician at the University of Kentucky. She is known for her clinical research on optimism and pessimism in relation to health,stress,and general well-being. [1] [2] [3]
Segerstrom was the 2002 first prize recipient of the Templeton Positive Psychology Prize [4] for her work "aimed at understanding the processes behind optimistic dispositions and beliefs and,in particular,how these processes relate to the functioning of the immune system". [5] She is Editor-in-chief of Psychosomatic Medicine. [6] She previously served as president of the American Psychosomatic Society. [7] Segerstrom is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. [8]
Segerstrom was born in Boston,MA and grew up in Oregon. [9] She attended Lewis and Clark College [10] where she received a bachelor's degree in psychology and music in 1990. Segerstrom went on to complete M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in clinical psychology at UCLA (1997),and a clinical internship in psychology at Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Center (University of British Columbia). She subsequently earned a M.P.H. degree in biostatistics from the University of Kentucky (2017). [11]
As a graduate student at UCLA,Segerstrom worked under the supervision of Shelley E. Taylor,Margaret Kemeny,and Michelle Craske. [4] Her dissertation titled "Optimism is associated with mood,coping,and immune change in response to stress" [12] received the American Psychological Association Martin E. P. Seligman Award for Outstanding Dissertation Research on the Science of Optimism and Hope. [9]
Segerstrom's research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging. [13]
Segerstrom's research examines individual differences in cognition,emotion,and personality factors (e.g.,dispositional optimism) in relation to psychological well-being,health,and physiological functions (e.g.,immune system). [4] This includes studies of the effects of disappointment [14] and emotional approach coping [15] on health. Her collaborative research with Sandra Sephton has explored how law students' expectations for their future affect their immune response, [16] [17] and suggests that optimism yields health benefits,including protection against viral infections. [18] Such findings align with other work indicating that people who have positive attitudes have better health outcomes. [19]
Segerstrom is the author of Breaking Murphy's Law:How Optimists Get What They Want and Pessimists Can Too [20] and the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Psychoneuroimmunology. [21]
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