Robert Biswas-Diener
Positive psychologist and author
Robert Biswas-Diener is a positive psychologist who studies happiness across cultures and income levels. He wrote The Upside of Your Dark Side.
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American Born 1972
About Robert Biswas-Diener
Robert Biswas-Diener was born in 1972 and is a positive psychologist, author and teacher at Portland State University. He earned his PhD in 2009 from the University of Tromsø, with a thesis on material wealth and subjective well-being. His research has taken him to Greenland, India, Kenya, Israel and Spain. He has published more than 75 academic papers and has sat on the editorial boards of the Journal of Happiness Studies and the Journal of Positive Psychology. He is also interested in applying positive psychology to coaching, and he trains coaches through his company, Positive Acorn. He co-founded The Strengths Project, a charity that helps underprivileged people and groups recognize their strengths. His parents, Ed Diener and Carol Diener, are also psychologists.