Shigehiro Oishi
Psychologist and author
Shigehiro Oishi is a Japanese psychologist at the University of Chicago who studies happiness, meaning and culture. He wrote Life in Three Dimensions.
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About Shigehiro Oishi
Shigehiro Oishi is a Japanese psychologist and author. He holds a professorship in psychology at the University of Chicago, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected him a member. As a personality and social psychologist, he is interested in culture, social ecology and well-being. He has published more than 200 journal articles and book chapters. Among his awards are the 2017 Career Trajectory Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and the 2018 Diener Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. A paper he co-wrote with Erin Westgate on a psychologically rich life won the 2022 Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize. Alongside Life in Three Dimensions, he has written The Psychological Wealth of Nations: Do Happy People Make a Happy Society? and a Japanese-language book on the science of happiness.