Prof. Charles S. Carver receives 2011 Jack Block Award from Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Charles S. Carver, distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Miami, has received the Jack Block award given by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the largest organization of social and personality psychologists in the world. Carver receives this award as recognition of his research over the past thirty years that has helped shaped modern personality psychology on self-regulation. His work has also examined individual differences in stress and coping and, more recently, the role of certain genes in self-regulation.

The award was presented to Carver at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology on January 26, 2012, in San Diego, California. ³This is a wonderful honor, both for me and for my many collaborators,² Carver said. ²Although the award is given to only one person at a time, it really belongs to all of us.² Carver is now the first person to receive awards for career contributions in the three disciplines of social, health, and personality psychology.

Carver received his doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin in Personality Psychology. His work spans the areas of personality psychology, social psychology, health psychology, and more recently experimental psychopathology. Specific topics he has worked on include stress and coping among cancer patients, the personality trait of optimism versus pessimism, and genetic and cognitive contributors to depression vulnerability. His research has been supported at various times by the National Science Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and the National Cancer Institute. He served for 6 years as Editor of JPSP¹s section on Personality Processes and Individual Differences and is currently an Associate Editor of Psychological Review. He is author of 9 books and over 310 articles and chapters and has spent his entire professional career at UM.

February 3, 2012