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Kathryn J Lively Ph.D.

About

Kathryn Lively, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College. She teaches courses on emotion and social psychology. She has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Emotion Review, Social Psychology Quarterly, and lay publications.

She is a co-author of Selves, Symbols, and Social Reality: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Social Psychology and Sociology, published by Oxford University Press. Kathryn is also a certified Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner and an Advanced Grief Recovery Method Specialist. She is currently studying Internal Family Systems (IFS) and is working on a manuscript that details the social psychological underpinnings of this approach and introduces new measurement tools to better understand the model's effectiveness.

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Recent Posts
Giving Yourself the Gift of Good Cheer
As we enter the holiday season, we should expect the stressors that have the potential to frustrate and anger us and also messages about how we should feel. Never fear, it is possible to change our reactions by altering aspects of the emotional experience.
The Six Saboteurs of Self Change
Self-change is hard. It’s hard because there are psychological mechanisms in place – identity-level mechanisms – that privilege consistency over change, not to mention pleasure over pain. There are also social mechanisms in place, such as our obligations to and our relationships with others.
Why Women Have a Hard Time Saying No
Say it graciously and definitively. And mean it. Don’t hem or hah. Stick to your guns. And don’t feel bad about it. Life’s tough. Do you think someone who can’t accept your heartfelt "no" would feel badly if the tables were turned?