Genetics of Psychological Well-Being
The Role of Heritability and Genes in Positive Psychology
Edited by Michael Pluess
Author Information
Michael Pluess, Associate Professor in Psychology, Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London
Michael Pluess, PhD, is an Associate Professor of developmental psychology at the Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology at Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom. Initially trained in chemistry and music he spent several years working in the lab and on stage before pursuing his interests in psychology. In his research Dr Pluess combines the disciplines of psychology and molecular genetics in order to investigate how environmental and genetic factors influence each other in shaping psychological development across the life course. Dr Pluess' research has been published in the leading journals of the field.
Contributors:
Michael Pluess, Biological and Experimental Psychology Division, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London
Corey Keyes, Emory University, USA
Robert A. Philibert, Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa
Steven R. H. Beach, The Center for Family Research, University of Georgia
Susan C. South, Purdue University
Amber Jarnecke, Purdue University
Bjørn Grinde, Division of Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo
Ragnhild Nes, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Division of Mental Health
Espen Røysamb, University of Oslo, Institute of Psychology
C. Robert Cloninger, Departments of Psychiatry & Genetics, Sansone Center for Well-being, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri
Danilo Garcia, Departments of Psychiatry & Genetics, Sansone Center for Well-being, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri
Richard Ebstein, Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore
Rachel Bachner-Melman, School of Social and Community Sciences, Ruppin Academic Center, Emek Hefer, Israel & Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Yunfeng Lu, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Soo Hong Chew, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Qiang Shen, Neuromanagement Lab, Department of Management of Science and Engineering,
School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou China
Elaine Fox, Oxford Centre for Emotions and Affective Neuroscience (OCEAN), Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Charlotte Booth, Oxford Centre for Emotions and Affective Neuroscience (OCEAN), Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Alexander Weiss, Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh
Michelle Luciano, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh
Meike Bartels, Department of Biological Psychology, Netherlands Twin Registry, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bart M. L. Baselmans, Department of Biological Psychology, Netherlands Twin Registry, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sierra Clifford, Arizona State University
Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant, Arizona State University
Jay Belsky, University of California, Davis
Moshe Szyf, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Adam Anderson, University of Toronto, Canada
Hans Melo, University of Toronto, Canada
Michael Meaney, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
