Sonja Lyubomirsky

Sonja Lyubomirsky is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Originally from Russia, she received her A.B., summa cum laude, from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology from Stanford University. Sonja's teaching and mentoring of students have been recognized with the Faculty of the Year and Faculty Mentor of the Year Awards and her research has been awarded a Templeton Positive Psychology Prize. Currently, she is an associate editor of the Journal of Positive Psychology and (with co-PI Ken Sheldon) holds a 5-year million-dollar grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to conduct research on the possibility of permanently increasing happiness. Her research has been written up in dozens of magazines and newspapers and she has appeared in multiple TV shows, radio shows, and feature documentaries around the world. Her book, The How of Happiness, was released in January, 2008 by Penguin Press (North America) and 15 foreign publishers.

Her PT blog is How of Happiness.