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Kennon Marshall Sheldon is a professor of psychological sciences at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. His research is in the areas of well-being, motivation, self-determination theory, personality, and positive psychology. In 2002 he was a recipient of a Templeton Foundation "Positive Psychology" prize and in 2014 received the Ed and Carol Diener award for mid-career achievement in personality psychology. He is the author of Optimal Human Being: An Integrated Multi-level Perspective, Self-determination Theory in the Clinic: Motivating physical and mental health, and has written and edited several other academic books, as well as more than 200 academic articles and book chapters.

References

1. "UCR Researcher Among the Winners of Psychology's Largest Monetary Prize for Research on Happiness]". University of California, Riverside Newsroom. 2002. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
2. Kennon M. Sheldon (2004). Optimal Human Being: An Integrated Multi-level Perspective. Psychology Press. ISBN 9781135636258.
3. Sheldon, Kennon M.; Joiner, Thomas; Williams, Geoffrey (2013-05-01). Self-Determination Theory in the Clinic: Motivating Physical and Mental Health. Place of publication not identified: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300199833.
4. "Kennon M. Sheldon Curriculum Vita".

External links

• Kennon M. Sheldon, Ph.D., Faculty page at the University of Missouri

Interview on Hidden Brain podcast https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/what-do-you-want-to-be/

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