University of
Michigan
chrispet@umich.edu
Christopher Peterson
has been at the
University of
Michigan since 1986,
where he is
presently Professor
of Psychology and
formerly Director of
Clinical Training.
He also holds an
appointment as an
Arthur F. Thurnau
Professor, in
recognition of his
contributions to
undergraduate
teaching.
His original
doctoral training
(1972-1976) was in
Social and
Personality
Psychology at the
University of
Colorado, where he
became interested in
individual
differences in
cognitive
characteristics. He
maintained this
interest during his
postdoctoral
retraining in
clinical psychology
(1979-1981) at the
University of
Pennsylvania, where
he began to use the
perspective of the
learned helplessness
model to investigate
psychopathology,
specifically
depression, and
physical well-being.
He is currently
turning his
attention to
positive psychology
and is spending the
second of three
years at the
University of
Pennsylvania working
with Martin Seligman
on a project funded
by the Mayerson
Foundation which
entails the creation
of (a) a coherent
classification of
human strengths and
virtues and (b) a
reliable and valid
strategy for
assessing these
aspects of
excellence.
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