Jaime L. Kurtz Ph.D.

Jaime Kurtz is a professor of psychology at James Madison University in Virginia. Her research focuses on strategies for savoring and well-being and has been published in journals such as Psychological Science, the Journal of Positive Psychology, Emotion, and Developmental Psychology. She is the author of The Happy Traveler: Unpacking the Secrets of Better Vacations (2017) and co-author of Our New Social Life: Science-Backed Strategies for Creating Meaningful Connection (2025), both published by Oxford University Press. She is also the co-author, with Sonja Lyubomirsky, of Positively Happy: Routes to Sustainable Happiness, and she regularly presents seminars on mental health to continuing education health care professionals nationwide.