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3111D PSYCHOLOGY BUILDING
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Friedman, Howard S

Distinguished Professor of Psychology

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Psychology


Biography

 My research focuses on two main fields. The first area of focus is health psychology. We study the role of psychosocial factors in health and health care, with an emphasis on emotional response patterns. For example, we study the emotional patterns that affect the development or progression of heart disease. Attention is also given to health promotion and disease prevention efforts. Current research includes a major longitudinal study of personality, temperament, stress, and longevity. The second area concerns face-to-face social interaction and emotional expression. Theories concerning the feeling, expression, and spread of emotion are examined through both experimental and observational studies of nonverbal communication. For example, certain people seem to have a dramatic expressive style often termed "charismatic." These people have a distinct personality and find it easy to be liked by and to influence others.

Degrees

BA Psychology 1972

Yale University

PhD Social Psychology 1976

Harvard University

Awards

2007 Association for Psychological Science, James McKeen Cattell Fellow
2000, Outstanding Teacher Award, Western Psychological Association (WPA)
1999 AAAS Fellow, Science
1999, Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology Award, Health Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association
1997 Society of Behavioral Medicine
1995, Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Riverside
1992, Most Cited Author, Institute for Scientific Information
1989 American Psychological Society
1988 Elected: Fellow American Psychological Association


Research Area

Health psychology; social and personality psychology Longitudinal and intervention research in health psychology Longevity (life-span predictors); Emotional expression; charismatic influence

Publications

Friedman, H.S. & Booth-Kewley, S. The "disease-prone personality": A meta-analytic view of the construct. American Psychologist, 1987, 42, 539-555.
Friedman, H.S. (ed.). Personality and Disease. NY: Wiley & Sons, 1990, (BOOK) [reprinted in Japanese, 1997]
Friedman, H.S. Self-Healing Personality: Why Some People Achieve Health and Others Succumb to Illness. NY: Henry Holt, 1991. (BOOK). Reprinted as: . Friedman, H.S. Les Secrets de L'autoguerison. Editions du Rocher, 1994. [French]. Friedman, H.S. Die Selbstheilungskrafte der Psyche. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1993. [German].
Friedman, H.S., Tucker, J.S., Schwartz, J.E., Tomlinson-Keasey, C., Martin, L.R., Wingard, D.L., Criqui, M.H. (1995). Psychosocial and behavioral predictors of longevity: The aging and death of the "Termites." American Psychologist, 50, 69-78.
DePaulo, B.M. & Friedman, H.S. (1998). Nonverbal Communication. In D. Gilbert, S. Fiske, & G. Lindzey (eds.) Handbook of Social Psychology, 4th edition. Boston: McGraw Hill, vol. II, pp. 3-40.
Friedman, H.S. (1998). Encyclopedia of Mental Health. (Editor-in-chief). San Diego: Academic Press. (3 volumes).