Howard S. Friedman
Psychology professor and author
Howard S. Friedman is a psychology professor at the University of California, Riverside. He has studied personality and longevity and wrote The Longevity Project.
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About Howard S. Friedman
Howard S. Friedman is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California in Riverside. For thirty years he has researched which personality traits predict a long life, and he has described a disease-prone type and a self-healing type. His book The Longevity Project draws on a landmark study that spanned eight decades. The Association for Psychological Science gave him its James McKeen Cattell Fellow award in 2008. The American Psychological Association (Division 38) also honored him with a career award in health psychology. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Friedman edits the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. His work on charisma and nonverbal expressiveness has found uses in health promotion, leadership training and medical education. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and earned his doctorate at Harvard University.